A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

Bieber has 10 million fans - most are in middle schools, or standing at least 500 feet away from one.

I learned from the guys before me - Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.

'Soul Plane' put me in a position to succeed. I'm glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

The kind of love that God has for us, I think, is of an infinite longing for union, and the kind of love that God wants us to have for him, I think, is of this also endless longing. Now in eros we lose ourselves. I think erotic love transforms us, but it does so only momentarily. It has to be embedded in something much longer, a much bigger narrative called marriage or durable relationship or something like that.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.

I feel like whatever you've done in your career, good or bad, it's nothing but preparation for the big events to come.