“I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.”

“Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.”

“I don't want to speak negativity into existence.”

“Every day I grapple between 'I'm going to get married' and 'I'm going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.'”

“My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther.”

“O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.”

“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”

“In the night, imagining some fear,How easy is a bush supposed a bear!”

“You better lose yourself in the music”

“When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.”

“I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard”

“Movies are like writing history with lightning.”

“He [Steve McQueen] must have made that before he died.”

“Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.”