We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.

I'm not a centerfold.

The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt me. But they could do the same just because I'm black. They could do the same just because I'm American.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.

If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion