There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts.

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

I had the afro when I was in high school. I had the flattop during a short period in the early '90s. And I've had different variations of dreadlocks. I'll admit to those!

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

I like doing films and I wish that I could do more but I still have to audition. I don't get offered starring roles in movies even though I've written and starred in a movie.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

Not everybody agrees on what's funny, obviously.

Learning lines is my biggest challenge.

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.

The music is all around us, all you have to do is listen.

At some magical instant you realize a deep Harmony with the universe. Enlightenment is that harmony.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

I did my gospel record, but there was nothing really of it. Maybe a hundred people bought it. But it's one of those things on the internet that people find and they make into a big deal.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.