I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with 'topics' - race, white versus black - you're not separating from the pack. You're doing what everybody else is doing.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life, where there's been loss, where there's sadness of a deep kind. If poetry can help people to be more at ease in expressing even to themselves a lot of the darkness and pain of ordinary human existence, then it's serving some kind of cultural role, perhaps more than a cultural role, perhaps it is serving something of a spiritual role.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it's mine. I run it. I have employees.

Life is too short to worry about what others say about you. Have fun and give them something to talk about.

People like to hear the word 'love.'