I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.

A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, "That's who I should grow up to be." It's odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted; I had no idea what it was like actually to be her. In those days, we weren't bombarded by images the way we are now, and the ones we did have were more vivid in people's minds.

I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.