It is very overwhelming to find that you are loved by people belonging to different provinces and cultures. They give me the energy.
Help me by whatever you are pleased to do in your provinces.
I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.
Just finding ways to be not provocative for provocativeβs sake, but to show an idea that hasnβt been shown before, I mean thatβs interesting to me.
Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.
It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.
I come from a Punjab and a community that has taught me that art is meant to be challenging, infuriating and thought provoking.
I can never forget my early days, when I was running from pillar to post to get chance to exhibit my prowess at higher level, but no one was ready to give me a break.
I was really only around country music on the radio, and I think because I grew up so close to Atlanta, and R&B was such a big part of that culture, by proximity I think a lot of that music influenced me without knowing it.
I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.
There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!
I'm not a prude. On the set, they called me 'Butt Naked.'
My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.
If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids' hands, and drag them to a museum.
I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket.
I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.
Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.
I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.
