We cannot make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free..

I'd rather make music than tour..

Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said t….

Hope is really a thought..

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness..

I learned that if a relationship is honest, it can last through anything despite all the challenges we have to face and everything that happens aroun….

I always knew what I was doing..

It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously..

It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for..

I cannot go and tell women what to wear and what not to wear; you have to decide on your own..

I really liked it best when I was a nobody..

But we can't go back. We can only go forward..

One of the central challenges for global conversation today is to find ways of getting to understand very different views about gender and sexuality.….

I do voicework all the time..

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche..

Every day, there's that tension and the pressure. Each scene that you shoot is like getting to that next step, but there's still that mountain to cli….

It was always a great challenge: how can I make a dreampop album that's still very Alcest, but not a ripoff - how to keep the core..

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening..

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself..

We are the sum total of our experiences..

I'm always relearning things I thought I'd learned for good a while back..