I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.

I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

I need a template of a template

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Losing your honor in a person's eye is tantamount losing it for entire humanity.

What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve this mystery at the end of class.'

It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.