Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work. Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet, wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be. So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.

I like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.