What rings true is that everything we grow through in life will work out for our good.

I am so proud to be from New Orleans and to be one of those people who had been displaced. I wasn't there during that time, but that's where I come from, that kind of poverty, and I'm very, very proud of that because it's given me my history.

I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that.

...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money...

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

The question that a lot of people ask me all the time is how did you make it? The truth be told, it was nothing but the grace of God.