I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?

NO ONE is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

Life- ride it until the wheels fall off.

You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'

I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with them, isn't afraid to tell you the truth about yourself.

For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder.

I don't really judge. To each his own. You like what you like.

You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.

Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

To embody a slice of life on stage/film/script/book is awe-inspiring

Everybody's got their own fight in different ring.

I think you don't support people based on one or two cases of situations. You deal with their balance over the long run.

I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad.

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

You're the nicest boy ever,", I told him, feeling undeserving and terrible. "You didn't have to get me anything. I like thinking about you thinking about me when I'm not around.

I realized I could do anything if I wanted it badly enough.

Without the eye, the head is blind. Without the head, the eye is adrift.