I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am.

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache.

I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.

If God's in me, he's a tumor.

Everyone calls him BlockheadNo one sings his praisesOr takes him to heart...That is the kind of personI want to be

Good editors are priceless.

There was an edge of, 'Go away kid, you're bothering me'. I've kicked myself a million times since. I could've discovered Whitney Houston.

I don't think I'm extremely intelligent by any means.

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.

The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

It's important for everybody to have somewhere to go. Men and women need purpose [in life].

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.