I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.
One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.
I think I'm not a natural-born salesman, for sure, but If I have a product I really believe in, I can overcome some of the shyness and get through the things that aren't natural to me.
I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.
I don't think anyone in that Roc Nation office gets eight hours of sleep; I highly doubt it. They're constantly working, and they're on top of everything, and they have a department for everything.
I always think 12 times before saying anything.
It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don't think so. On my films I decide.
I grew up watching MTV, so it's very surreal to me to think that there might be someone out there watching MTV, looking at us the way I used to look at Davis Madonna and Duran Duran videos.
When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking. It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.
I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.
That's one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything - you cannot. No matter how close you've been, over however many years, there remain secrets. I think we all know that - that you don't tell everybody everything.
It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.
I don't think the tabloids find me very interesting.
I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.
In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.
I am obsessed with my sisters. Being the oldest, I probably just have that in me. But I also think I am the youngest sometimes. We all have moments when we are the maternal one of the group.
It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.
Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?
I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.
I think just knowing you're married and having that in the back of your mind all the time - it sounds official, but it doesn't really feel any different. We don't do anything differently than we did before.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.
I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.
A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.
I think it's nice sometimes not to be plugged in 24/7 to email and the Internet and everything else. It's nice to get away.
And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes.
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.
I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further - as long as there's substance in terms of the material.
I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.
The goals will come; we just have to think about working ahead of the next game.
