I'm not afraid to fail. Sometimes when you lose, you win. Sometimes when you win, you lose.

The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.

When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.