I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

About 40 years ago, it's stunning to think that the NCAA had never started an all-black team before. No one had done that before.

I felt like I got more comfortable on 'Idol' when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

When I started to write it, it got to be too big, it got to be 250, 300 pages, ... I said, well, I can't do this. The studio will never allow this. I will take the first half, make a movie out of that, and then I was determined to come back and finish the other three, or other two stories.

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.