And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

It was a challenge to my teammates to help me.

The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.

I never really thought of comedy as a career. My goal was, when I moved to New York, I was going to write serious films.

Nobody is going to hand you a music career.

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

It's funny, I really feel like I've learned a lot in my career but I still feel like a child. Like, an 11-year-old? I think it will be like that all my life, actually.