Music is what I love to do, so you'll never have to worry about me not doing that.

Whatever it is, it feels like it's laughing at me Through the glass of a two-sided mirror.

Don't be afraid to be yourself just because you're not like everybody else in class. If you want to dye your hair green and that's what makes you happy, then dye your hair green, no matter what other people might say about it. Not everybody is going to like you - that's the world we live in; that's reality.

It's hard to imagine, but we cant think of HIV/AIDS as being somebody else's story. It could be any of ours.

People hesitate to follow their desires because they don't know how to divide their soul from their spirit.

Even if people don't love it, I made exactly the piece of art that I wanted to make. It's super fearless - which is exactly how I feel right now. I am in a really good place.

The music is an important and crucial part to an animated film. You don't think about it, but you can watch Tom and Jerry with no words, for hours, and the music dictates the emotion and where the story is going and how you're supposed to feel. Everything is in the music.