I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.

My kids are the most important people in the world to me.

Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.

I love California. I love Hollywood.

I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both.

They say I'm a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don't know.

I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

Wisdom is in uniconsciousness.

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.

You can be the coldest rapper, but if you're not known, you're nobody.

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.

Cheap work is seldom, if ever, valuable. Usually, it’s just cheap.

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.