You're never going to see me playing a buffoon.

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

I ain't running for office. I ain't running for nothing.

When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.

When you're offstage, that's the footprint. That's the man God's gonna judge.

People like rumors. They're going to say things like, 'You was at the club with Lil' Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.' You can't get upset. You've got to keep hope alive.