Take charge of your thoughts!.

In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today..

I'm closest to the music when I'm onstage with the band, playing..

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger..

I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love..

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality..

Oh, no, I was afraid of that! I'd better go and hide..

The celebrity thing is such a thing in itself now..

I like doing the crossword puzzle in the New York Times, not watching E! on TV..

I was also thinking that I only had a certain amount of time to make music and to spend it in that city. And everybody else... you know the story 'Oh….

When I do plays in New York and do eight shows a week, you have the same feeling. Three of them are terrible, four of them are okay and one is really….

New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am..

Spin-offs were never really my thing..

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures..

There were a lot of days when I thought maybe this isn't what I should be doing. There've been a lot of days where you get to the point where you're ….

It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington..

My dad moved to New York after he won "Soul Train" and the car and got settled in out there and was able to step right into Dance Theatre of Harlem a….

There is no wisdom but in death.

I'm incredibly happy to be doing my own thing in New York..

I've been racketeered on..

You find out what's in you when it comes out.