We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

I think everyone’s inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, ‚Well, if everyone likes it it can’t be that good.‘ Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

It’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

People tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

The stylish kids on the street, they’re the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they’re doing and go and design their line and sell it back to the same kids, and it’s like, why not go directly to the source?

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn’t white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It’s either ‚rawk‘ or it’s not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.