When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.'

Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

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.

Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.

When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.