I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

Carrot Top... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me.

Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.

Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly.

I went to Sirius Satellite Radio and did my show, Rapping With Rip.

Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!

I went to see Harvey again in Fiddler. Harvey's throat is getting better.

I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens.

I've created such a monster.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

Claire Hodgson, born Clara Mae Merritt, was the daughter of a prominent Georgia attorney who had once represented Ty Cobb. She was still a teenager when she married Frank Hodgson, a gentleman caller nearly twice her age.

I basically have paid for a piano and a flat-screen television completely with my poker earnings. I'm pretty good at it.

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.

So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently.

Let's be honest with one another: almost everything is too long except life, and I know people who wouldn't even concur with that exception.

I just broke up with my boyfriend, so I'm officially single. But one thing I find unbelievably annoying is all these guys in my life who want to save me.

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

I don't mind being called a weirdo. There are a lot of people in hip-hop who are probably never going to get what I do. But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

My grandfather left Cuba when Castro came into power and literally left everything. He had two suitcases and two kids and showed up in New Jersey and waited for my uncle to meet up with him. Imagine - there were no cell phones back then!

If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts.

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

I was married at 20 and had a baby by 21. I had to grow up fast. Luckily there were people who believed in me and there were always jobs when I needed one.