I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

I don't think I came to music. I think music came to me - or was already embedded when I came into this sphere, this realm, this Earth.

If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.

You can't have an all-girl band! They'll get pregnant, and they'll never stay together.

Happiness is just a great equalizer. It's like water. You pour happiness liberally and all sorts of great things are going to happen.

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages.

I believe people change. I think that they can learn from mistakes.

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

I've got so much in my brain and I want to change the way we think sometimes.

If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self awareness.

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

I don't think I can breathe now with you gone.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.