It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.
I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.
All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.
I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the idiosyncrasies or the follies or vanities of people in power.
If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.
I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.
I've always referred to my father as 'my coach' because we were always able to separate our relationship into the roles of coach and parent.
One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't be able to smile so much.
I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me - I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed.
Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.
Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.
I want a man who isn't questioning who he is. I want a man to be able to stand next to me and not disappear and not be emasculated by my success.
PR is extremely important, and being able to use it in the right way means everything. You have to market your success.
What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.
I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.
I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way - to people in need.
Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.
In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I'm really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I'm able to communicate directly with them.
If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting.
I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.
