As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

I have a talent for missing the best and greatest parties.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.