When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple.

My dad one time told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.' And that really stuck with me. I think about that a lot. I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called "Starry Room" and then I started turning over a new leaf. Now, I'm completely honest with girls all the time and they just get mad at me.

Anything that you can shock somebody with. The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.

On working with his father in Pursuit of Happyness: It was fun having that experience with my dad 'cause he really taught me a lot of the stuff that he knows. Almost everything he knows about acting in that one movie.

You can be a pharaoh. Like, a pharaoh means, that which you will become.

Here’s the deal: School is not authentic because it ends. It’s not true, it’s not real. Our learning will never end.

If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society.