I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.

From a very young age, I felt a spiritual, visceral, instinctual connection with 'black is beautiful.' Just the black experience and wanting to celebrate that. And I didn't know how to articulate that as a young child.