My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it.

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

My People: Prepared and never scared, fueled by faith in a sea of despair - we rise and we shine, 'cause it's like that'!

A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.

But don't ever call her ex-boyfriends by his name.

I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.

I believe Christians often perceive obedience to God as some test designed just to see if we’re really committed to Him. But what if it’s designed as God’s way of giving us what’s best for us?

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.