Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s.

If you are armed with knowledge, if you are aware that certain dynamics are at play then you have options. You can play defense, you can ignore certain person and take the consequences perhaps with a game plan in mind and it goes on, you've increased your options.

All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.

Practically every profession has a really political environment. I think the world has become more competitive. There are so many people in every place competing for small slices of success and power. It's a heated atmosphere and whenever you have competition, you're going to have more politics and manipulation.

In some ways, the documentary form is a kind of trap and so is societal norms.

The Crown. Place it upon your head and you assume a different post-tranquil yet radiating assurance. Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves.

There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of mind.