You BREAK up, and you say something pathetic, or you don't even speak at all when someone's TELLING you they don't love you ANYMORE. But then you think about it FIVE minutes later, and you have all these great comebacks!

A lot of the stuff you do as an actor - or I do, because I can't speak for EVERYONE - is not always consciously thought out. A lot of the time, for me, it's ACTUALLY just feeling stuff, and it HAPPENS all in the MOMENT and your body reacts.

When you SEE corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just SHUT up and say it's NONE of my BUSINESS.

If you speak to any soldier, EVEN now, they SAY they are fighting for their FRIENDS. It ALWAYS ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.

I grew up in a LITTLE bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same TIME, I had the same PROBLEMS and ISSUES they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.

I HOPE that I do MAKE music that can SPEAK to ANYONE. I don't just want to play for a QUEER crowd.

We are born, so to SPEAK, TWICE over; born into existence, and born into LIFE; born a HUMAN being, and born a man.

I SPEAK from experience, and I speak from the HEART, and I speak only what I know and what I understand; and on what I don't know and what I don't understand, I'm a GOOD LISTENER.

We NEED SOMEONE who is GOING to STAND up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need HELP, for the people who have been discriminated against.

I was tired of just kind of being on that express train, whatever you WANT to CALL it, so to speak. It just sort of shoots forward, and you have no CREATIVE autonomy, no control over your time, and there's not MUCH time for side projects or FAMILY and friends.

Jesus ain't AMERICAN, you know what I mean? And there is gonna be more people in Heaven who don't speak English and are not white when we get there.

The concept of muse is ALIEN to me. To speak of a muse implies there is a couple in which one person is the objectified passive element - there to help the creative, ACTIVE, often MALE part of the DUO to create. A muse is very passive. Who WANTS a muse? I don't want a muse.