It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy.

When I was 10 there wasnt trampolines and cartoon charaters, I never went to Chuck E Cheese! My mom said 'You wanna see a mouse pull the refrigerator Out!'

Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.

We're Mexi-cans not Mexi-can'ts.

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly.

Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.

if you make waffles, throw out the first one.

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

I have composed too much.

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

Our owne actions are our security, not others judgements.

I do sing about drinking, but it's in a party way. I don't sing about drinking in a drowning-my-sorrows way, like in George Jones's "If Drinking Don't Kill Me (Her Memory Will)."

Literature provides us with experiences it would not be wise or possible to introduce into our own world and thus enlarges our understanding of the world.

I had been creating music on tape that was to be listened to as a recording, rather than through performance.

The Duce will have Ethiopia, with or without the Ethiopians.

Marco [Rubio] now is attached to that establishment. I don't see his future, not in this particular cycle.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.