It's important to make a great first impression, so make sure to hold on to your damn weave.

Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws.

I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.

There's really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they're getting is on pace with life.

Look at me - a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

The public wants a great product, but they also want more layers of value. So it's lifestyle, it's takeaway, it's entertainment. It's all of those things and social media facilitates a big chunk of that, because they want to touch and feel you, they want to talk to someone about it, they want to join a community of other people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.

Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.