My favorite rappers are Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.

My hard work finally catching up with perfect timing

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I always hung around older dudes. I feel like I was more wise and I just had more knowledge of what was going on.

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

It's the timing. I don't have to do it [drugs] all the time.

Everybody just needs a second chance.

I don't write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift and I'm making the most of my opportunity.

You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records. So, I'm going to start opening up and letting you know my struggles.

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.

My die-hard fans who came out - I call them my die-hard fans because any time a fan pays to see you, they have to love what you're doing, respect the craft.

Kindness is seen as weakness and intelligence worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

Burnett fidgeted. She had never seen Burnett like this. He looked like a kid who needed to go to the bathroom.

Artists know that you can take an advertising sign and make something joyful with it. It's sometimes hard for people who don’t make things to understand labor and joy and attention and whimsy.

For the first time, we live in a society that shows any sign of the possibility of women changing this condition.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Sometimes I've gone out there and thought to myself, 'Don't miss this one, don't miss it.' I don't think about that anymore. It just comes natural.

The terrorist threat has decreased in some ways, because Bin Laden is dead.