I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive..

I'm not just another bimbo..

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..

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbea….

Accidental stacks considered harmful..

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..

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

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning..

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

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse..

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..

We live in a very gynophobic society.

Not being happy really is my fear..

I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we start on the slippery ….