It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.

In order to make a change, I have to exist in a traditionally homophobic space such as hip-hop. If I were to just be this queer rapper who only spoke to queer kids... I don't think I could as effectively make a change for another young, black, queer kid growing up in Texas.

While the digital transformation of industries will be profound, we must keep in mind that it will have wider economic and social impact, too, as with previous revolutions driven by steam and coal, electricity and computers.

In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.