It's not like the old competition that you had between Leno and Letterman. It's a friendly competition between Fallon and Stephen.

Earliest musical memory is probably being scared stiff with my family's band as a youngster on stage playing the conga drums.

I'm always about trying to fill a need with what I do in my artistry. There is definitely a need in the performing arts world for a movement to come along that seriously connects with a next generation audience while still maintaining the timeless artistic objectives present throughout the history of the American music tradition.

In the process of them developing this instrument, I've been playing the melodica in the style I would like the harmoniboard to be played, which is a mix between a harmonica and keyboard. I play with trumpet style techniques. I really like the mobility of being able to step off the piano and bring the music to the audience.

I can go into any working circumstance and, simply, I'm prepared to deal with the work. It was a long, hard lesson I learned.

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.

For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life.

The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work, thus gaining for oneself better terms - or means to rewards, whether material, like wealth, or nonmaterial - an experience we may call 'prospering.'