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I believe that one of the things I've tried to do is work hard and take the business very seriously.

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Never believe people in this business who say they don't read what's written about them.

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What I've figured out how to do is make people feel comfortable on television and on the radio, which enables me to have access to them, which is key for what I do.

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It's in my blood to be on the radio every day. I've done it since I was 16 years old.
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I literally get up and get to do the one thing I dreamed about doing every day. And that is being a part of a television show and a radio show that is based in Hollywood.

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My company is in the business of content, delivering content, so whether you see it or taste it or hear it or smell it, that's what I do every day.

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I'd like to make time slow down.
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If I don't wear something for a year, I give it away.

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I don't Botox. I've never Botoxed.
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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

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Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

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I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

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I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

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I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

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I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

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I don't think anyone really says anything new.

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I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
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I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

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People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

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There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

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Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

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I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

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When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It's almost theatrical.

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I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

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I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.

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Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

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You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.

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We cannot turn our back and say that violence in films or anything that we do doesn't have a sort of influence. It does.

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Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does.

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To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.

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If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.

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I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it's stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

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So there is not a lot about me that you don't know other than that I play table tennis. I'm great, I'm great at table tennis! You will look at me and go, 'How does that dude know how to play that well?'

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A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.

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When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.

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That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

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With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

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Guys don't adapt as well as women do to getting their heart broken for the first time. It's tragic.

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If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.

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I remember meeting President Obama and looking at him, thinking, 'Damn, this dude is really our president. He really went out and did it!' If you look at stories like that, and other stories that I'm sure you could compare to, it's just about freeing your mind and taking those guards down.

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When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.

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Stand-up is my heart and now I get a chance to do that and the music altogether. That's going to be great. I'm trying to be the Sammy Davis Jr. of 2005. I'm planning on going out with Cedric the Entertainer because he's got that musical bone, too.

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I don't know if I'm built for marriage.
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But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.

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Those who do not complain are never pitied.

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Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

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You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

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