If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.

I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.

In the theory of evolution there is no talk of God and no Bibles are used. They're not looking for higher powers, extraterrestrials, or anything else that could be found in the science fiction section, because they are not dealing with fiction.

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'