You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
Anybody that really knew Tupac will tell you the same thing. That he was just a dude that was full of life, full of energy.
I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week. " It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame.
Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.
I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?
You know it ain't no stoppin' All the doggs I'm droppin' It's Friday night, so everything is poppin.
When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.
I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit? Years later, the dean of students at Harvard told me that my letter had been posted in the dean’s office for the amusement of the staff. Thus did I learn the measure of institutional arrogance.
Success is about happiness and security, rather than hitting any particular sort of job or rung on the career ladder.