“I think that rap is narrative, when it’s done right.”

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

I hear music as narrative.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

It paid my way through college and helped my family out.

You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

When you get to play with the big boys, your game improves drastically.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace.

I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.

Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.

European children are educated in a narrative of human tolerance every day, and if you want to be sure to prevent a backlash, you should at least think of bringing Muslim children and teenagers into the fold of that narrative of tolerance.

I hear music as narrative.

I need to tell the things that are important but which don’t make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction.

Thank God for Canada! In the context of this narrative [in Underground] and beyond.