Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.

I can pay my rent now. I guess I could always do that, but now I can get an apartment with heat.

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.