I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done. I wish I could say I'm an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I've been lucky that things have come across my path and they've worked out well for me.

Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they're always going to be up, and I think that's impossible for anyone.

I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.

The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.

I love it when I come across a word I don't know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren't smart enough to come along with me.