I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

People don't get to choose their family, but if you have the family you would choose - that's happiness.

In the race of life, the Person leading is the Enemy of All those coming Behind.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

Thousands of people die every year of cold, so if we had global warming it would save lives ... We ought to look out for people. The earth can take care of itself.

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

I think hiphop is a beautiful thing and I embody it and I'm going to live it and I'm going to represent it until the day I leave this earth, because I represent everything positive about hiphop.

I feel so lucky that I've been on shows that have been by and large critically acclaimed and that audiences like it.