I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

Donald Trump's not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression of an artist.

You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.

The reason I got a break in Hollywood when I moved here a few years ago is my good buddy, who I was on the beach with when he was a publicist, is now the chairman of HBO.

The world belongs to the people who say, 'I can'.

A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.