You never know. Somebody can seem cool and then you look in their music library and there's Katy Perry.

If I know that I can do something that makes me happy, why do I allow myself to get so depressed?

Knowledge is not always power.

I'm probably the only person in the world that feels physical pain as a reaction to joy.

I like lots of bands, and I LOVE fewer, but the list is still lengthy. I rarely pick a "favorite" because I think that's for laypeople who don't understand the infinite possibilities of music.

I dug her usage of "Spotify" as a verb.

I am angry. It is illegal for me to be angry. Remember: Don't get angry. It is illegal to be a black man and be angry. Right. Got it. I will remember this next time.

Honesty isn't easy. Or comfortable.

I'm attracted to difficulty, I think. I'm attracted to guys who have truckloads of baggage. With them, it will never, ever be simple. And then they do or say one little magical thing and they own me.

I'm awful at hiding it when I'm miserable. Sometimes I think if I were better at it maybe I'd be able to fool myself. Trick the misery right out of me.

How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child.

Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed.

We do have our challenges. Some things don't always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what's not working right.

So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O soul brides of the Husband Lord, and dwell on the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.

Just as the winds whip up the sea, so does anger stir confusion in the mind.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well.

Yeah, it's a weird little niche, but by God, it's my niche.