I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.

I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

I believe in fate, I believe in hard work, and I feel like if I just keep marching, the path will kind of appear before me.

You can't copy style, you gotta create your own.

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.

For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says, on the star tree, pale with luminousocean leaves.

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

When I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished - for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.

Helping others is the way we help ourselves.

Use the freest goods for happiness... The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And yet they are all infinitely precious.

A taste of honey is worse than none at all.

Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.