My first hip-hop performance was at Carnegie Hall with Wyclef, ... I got a little feature and he announced me as the 'hip-hop violinist.' The next night I played at the Apollo.

In the same way, teenagers imagine dying young because death is more imaginable than the person that all the decisions and burdens of adulthood may make of you.

How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love?

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water.

I think if you can be a goal-setting person, it makes it easier to stay motivated.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.

I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.

The fans treated me with a lot of respect, and I played as hard as possible every night. I wanted to win. I'm going to always be a competitor.

Bad chances were better than no chances.