Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.

I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

I have done films only for the sake of money and sometimes, I have been duped into believing that the film is a sensible project.

People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.