"Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!"

"As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time you have no idea whether you're capable of it."

"I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences."

"I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel."

"Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through."

"I aim my music at the hip black hip-hop audience."

"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them."

"From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into."