The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.
I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.
Once you label me you negate me.
We are all people... don't label me as an LGBT rapper or a female rapper... I don't like to be labeled.
I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music.
I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.
To be labelled a cheat - it's not fair. If I'm a cheat, then prove I'm a cheat or just leave me alone and let me do what I do best.
I was just trying to say that it's unnecessary; you don't need to label yourself. I guess it came off the wrong way, because then everyone labelled me as gay. That's not what I was trying to say. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course!
What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.
There were so many different labels coming to me and they just didn't seem right, but 300... they wanted me bad. It felt like a family.
My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I don't know if it's the right thing to do - push your kids into something and then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what they want to do.
I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.
The studio part, to me, can be pretty laborious. You're inside for hours on end and can be pretty frustrating to get the sound you hear in your head to come out of those speakers.
I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious.
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.
I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.
I get called to do a lot of labors of love... independent films on very small budgets. If I have the time and if the project speaks to me, it's better than sitting around, right?
