I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months
If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights.
I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.
Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.
I never had the desire to be a professional Twitterer. Every now and then something dumb pops into my head and I'll tweet it. I don't feel any obligation to respond to everyone. Not that I don't appreciate people sending me messages on there, but there are too many. Responding to everyone would take away time for all the stuff I'm actually in the business for.
With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.
Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.
I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume. . . that we really know the score. . . . [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out. '
Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing him more than yourself, or any other creature. In order to do this attend strictly to the sense of what you sing, and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound, but offered to God continually; so shall your singing be such as the Lord will approve here, and reward you when he comes in the clouds of heaven.