“Like anyone who records music or writes a song, I thought, 'Wouldn't t...” — Samuel Ervin Beam Quote

“Like anyone who records music or writes a song, I thought, 'Wouldn't that be cool if someday I were able to do this for a living?' But it was such a fluke, and it really all took me by surprise and I just held on for dear life. I really wasn't prepared. I really went into it naively with no experience.”

“I have a short attention span.”

“I was raised in the suburbs. I wasn't on a plantation or anything.”

“Gun violence and social justice are near and dear to my heart. And they are so connected it's sad.”

“Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”

“I've always thought that 'Dear White People' should live on as a TV show, so I'll leave it at that.”