“I’m happy with the amount of success I’ve achieved. I feel like I’m getting better every day and I’m always learning. I don’t take anything for granted and I’ve gained a deeper perspective on things.”

Play what you would like to hear, rather than what you would like to play.

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.

I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that because the rich man gets ice in the summer and the poor man gets it in the winter things are breaking even for both. Maybe so, but I’ll swear I can’t see it that way.

Hate gets going, it goes round, it gets older and tighter and older and tighter, until it holds a person inside it like a fist holds a stick.

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

It’s a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

You want to keep improving yourselves and getting better at what you do.

Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.