I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

An entertainer's reputation as a live act is the most valuable thing he or she can have. If people know you give good shows, you'll never be broke for the rest of your life.

I love my life, but I don't think I'm any happier than my younger brother Andre, who drives a garbage truck.

You're not famous unless people's mothers know who you are. Everybody else, you think you're famous, but you're just hot, and heat cools off.

You only know that you're smart because you're around dumb people from time to time!

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail!