Your mind is what makes everything else work.

I was especially impressed with Pauley Pavilion [at UCLA campus ]. The floors hadn't been laid down yet, when they gave me the tour, each new room got my heart thumping. They even had a surgical operating room in case an athlete was severely injured.

The only reason is that I hadn't seen The Modern Jazz Quartet perform live and a live performance is often where the real experience of jazz takes place. I'm not familiar with the Boswell Sisters.

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself, all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

With 300 million people in America, you can fail to impress 299 million of them and still go platinum.

My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.