When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.

They say if you don't have your health you ain't got nothing, but the truth is you ain't got nothing if you don't have no one to worry about your health.

I was good at keeping my mother from crying.

I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

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

America...Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch...My James Brown.

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.