“An inevitable question asked of a performer who has made a modest succ...” — Jim Nabors Quote

An inevitable question asked of a performer who has made a modest success of his career is, 'How has success changed you?' It's a loaded question because it automatically assumes that there has been a change. And, in a sense, the assumption is a correct one. Basically, however, most people remain pretty much the same.

One thing I've learned is when you find a best friend in this life, you better hang on.

I sang in the glee club and church choir, but I never sang a solo. I never thought of myself as a singer, and that might have crossed your mind, too.

The businessman gets his name on a door. The star gets his name in lights. They both get their names on a parking space.

Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

The 'beach read' has become such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been around. In fact, the term only emerged in the 1990s, usually in book trade publications such as 'Booklist' and 'Publisher's Weekly.'

It's an interesting thing about being a 'fem.' People automatically assume that I'm straight.