We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of it is more serious and talking about interesting issues that we think are provocative and interesting to us. Kind of on a more political level. But, you know, just things that we find interesting that we think stories that need to be told.

There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.

The biggest weapon is to stay peaceful

I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people from one writer's point of view.