A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.
I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.
People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.
The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.
Grab love of life every day. Because we're all gonna die. It's difficult to live that way. Most people are afraid to. Or can't. I find it very difficult.
Our friendship [ with Don Handfield] has remained all that time, and I'm godfather to his kids, but then when The Hurt Locker came around, I just knew there was a lot of opportunity that was coming in, and just couldn't really manifest any opportunities because things were busy.
I want my personal life to be personal. . . And I don't care if you're talking about things that are true, you're still talking about my personal life.
I can't do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.
Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.