It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat.

No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong.

I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.

Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.