Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.
So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more.
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?
We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.
I've never. . . when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.
When you have an inspired thought, you must trust it and act on it.
Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.
I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can connect with him as a person with brown skin who's viewed differently by the world. In terms of his culture, we're thinking about where we are locating Wakanda within the continent, and what the people and history of that region are like. It's a process of investigation to help inform the story at this point. But we are going to be engaged with consultants who are experts on the continent and on African history and politics.
I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.