I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.
I like not being noticed. It has been a struggle because I love performing, but if I'm in a group of people and someone has a bigger personality, I'm like, 'Go ahead, and have fun!'
I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.
Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.
I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.
Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.
I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.
I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.
After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.
I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.
My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.
Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.
I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person.
Like most people, I'm fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.
People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.
I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.
There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.
When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.
The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.
When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they'll put a negative spin on things.
