You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

I have faith that my life is in good hands. I honestly try to see how I can grow from uncomfortable circumstances.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain - that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights.

You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song.