I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

My driving force is spirituality.

I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.

I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.

It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity.

Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

So many comics have such low self-esteem.

Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.

I got an early education from television.

If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?

Honoring a life is honoring the wide open space of wilderness and unknowing where the sacred dwells.

English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning.

Love well, whip well.

One could imagine a period like Japan13 years ago, however, in which indexing over time wouldn't work.

Even if it's L.A. and it's warmer, we're not supposed to be revving up right now. I don't like everyone's energy around [winter] time of year.

Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind.

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

I just read about a schoolteacher who got hurt. She was grading papers on a curve!

Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.