You can't copy style, you gotta create your own.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.

I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

I believe in fate, I believe in hard work, and I feel like if I just keep marching, the path will kind of appear before me.

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.

Do what you can today. And keep working up until you can do everything you want to do in the day, every day.

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.

Remember whose you are and whom you serve.

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

The mind paints before the brush.

Meditation is the action of silence.

Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?

The only way to be absolutely safe is to never try anything for the first time.

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

Collaboration is when you find somebody who, literally, complements and gets you that you can work with. Collaboration is when you really, really want to work with somebody.