“I’m loving N.Y., and words can’t even describe how happy I am to be here.”

I’m trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.

When I see my own people going through the tough times, it’s a wake-up call. I hope my influence can impact someone else’s decision to get out here and vote.

People ask for this life, but they don’t really understand what comes with it. People just see the outside and that looks good – big houses, cars, girls, but you never see how the person is feeling deep down inside.

Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.

Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can’t have any big failures. I’ve always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn’t know what that meant.

I don’t prepare for my roles. I don’t watch movies to get inspired. I don’t dig deep. I’ll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.

I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That’s how powerful music can be.

I love my fans very much. They give me the confidence to continue things in life.

You’re trying to take something that can be described in many, many sentences and pages of prose, but you can convert it into a couple lines of poetry and you still get the essence, so it’s that compression. The best code is poetry.

But once you describe something, you destroy it.

Science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.

I do not believe that I’m sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I’m demanding returns for my investments.

It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.

In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.