To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.