I don't really like ska..

Education isn't something you can finish.

Just being from New York, that's something that you do - knowing how to dress..

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

I'm not just another bimbo..

Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to puff one up: in my case at any r….

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day..

There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go..

I've aged, but grown up? No..

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..

Accidental stacks considered harmful..

Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself..

It's never over till it's over with a friend..

Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure..

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying..

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make..

You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like..

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live..

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer..