I'm not a racist. That's what's so insane about this.

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.

I lost my temper on stage.

I'm not a racist, that's what so insane about this. And yet it is said. It comes through, it fires out of me, and even now in the passion that's here as I confront myself.

There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.

It's a big game tomorrow, obviously, quarter finals. I think that whenever you play the Russians you always get up for it, and tomorrow is going to be even that much bigger, the quarter finals.

I don't know, in view of the situation, and the act going where it was going, I don't know, the rage - the rage did go all over the place. It went to everybody in the room.

You're lucky. You're getting this over with now. You only fall in love for the first time once.""That's very Taylor Swift of you, " I say.

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists - as it surely will. Then act with courage.

It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned.

In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.

And now that Martina McBride knows of T.I., and T.I. knows of Martina McBride, that made me very happy, too. It's introducing worlds to different people and bringing them together with a song.

Bowling, I like bowling. I've been getting into this bowling thing. It's kinda fun.

There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.