I Love To Go On Stage And

People Are Best On Records And Books Because You Can Turn Them Off Or Put Them Back On The Shelf.

I Don't Wish To Be Anything More Or Less Than What I Am. If This Is How It Is, Then So Be It.

For The Last 30-plus Years, I Have Been Doing One Long, Uninterrupted Improv.

I Think Hip-hop Has Definitely Brought The Black Experience To White Kids More Than The Civil Rights Movement Did And More Than Any Teacher's Well-intentioned Lecture On Martin Luther King Did.

Sometimes It Seems The Harder You Try To Hold Onto Something Or Someone The More It Wants To Get Away. You Feel Like Some Kind Of Criminal For Having Felt, For Having Wanted. For Having Wanted To Be Wanted. It Confuses You Because You Think That Your Feelings Were Wrong And It Makes You Feel So Small Because It’s So Hard To Keep It Inside When You Let It Out And It Doesn’t Come Back. You’re Left So Alone That You Can’t Explain.