Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.
When starting a project, your influences are the things around you. It doesn't mean you have to sound like it or look like it or anything. It's just something new, and your curiosity becomes enthralled by it.
I just want to support my mom. I have everything I need. I don't need to buy anything.
When I play my match, I can't think about anything else except what I'm doing on my side of the net.
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.
When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.
I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.
Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.
I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history.
The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.
I actually like, love, and respect myself, and I try not to take anything too seriously.
Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.
