Sometimes I felt as a writer I was purging, and it almost hurt to purge to that level. Now it doesn't feel that way, maybe because I'm older. Maybe life has given me some punches, but it didn't knock me down.

Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming.

'True Blood' excites me. It scares me, but it excites me.

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

I've always been a firm believer that soul music never dies. The artists we still listen to today, years after their music was first heard are mostly soul artists; Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Chaka Khan. We still sing along to all of them with our hearts.

I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.