A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

I worked in a Chinese restaurant.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.