Things aren't black and white in the world.

I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

In England, in France, in no other country would a black man have a chance to get elected. There's no two ways about it. Our country [USA] has been better about dealing with immigration and people who are different from each other than any other country in the world, that I know of.

The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.

Some day you do something where you use everything you know. You don't do it ostentatiously where you see the workings going on. But some day, if you're lucky, that will happen.

I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.