You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.

We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title.

Juicing has helped me bring my pressure down. Organic natural foods, too.

I don't want to be home just taking medicine and waiting to die, you know? That's not something I'm about.

I just want to be able to get onstage and move and move around.

[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.

I've got these five-pound weights and a treadmill in the living room. I work out the other parts that have affected my voice: my diaphragm - doctors took mine out in surgery - and my lungs. I've got to build back my legs, too, so I can run across that stage. I've got a lot to do, but I'm going to get out, sing songs and tell the stories.