I want to say to you: Help yourself, so you can help someone else.

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.

For goodness sake, look at those cakes.