Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say. ~Sharon O'Brien

Don't take my hate personal. I hate even myself.

It is better to have live followers, then dead enemies.

There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.

Elvis may have fueled rock & roll's imagery, but Chuck Berry was its heartbeat and original mindset.

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy

I've noticed a surge when I go out somewhere, or if I'm doing stand-up.

The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness.

You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.

If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.