You have to hide what you are and it's really stressful and very bad for your self esteem. Because it's not obvious to people that you are ill, they treat you as if you're a pain in the ass, then you beat yourself up and you are already beating yourself up as a part of mental illness.

There is a God. God exists.

I don't feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I'm an old lady, I'm going to have it.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

I think there's a difference between God and religion.

I was getting a lot of pressure from people in show business about my being overweight because of medication, I was on 200 mg of amitriptiline. When I said this to my doctor, for some reason she took me completely off medication and she didn't really supervise properly.

I suppose is very cathartic to do a show to the masses and you get to make magic in a manner that you can't do in regular life, but I suppose that self esteem effect is one of the most powerful.