Absurdity is my favorite BRAND of humor because DEEP down INSIDE, in our subconscious, it's all SURREALISM. It's all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor - it all just overlaps.

I've ALWAYS been a sci-fi/fantasy GUY. My book reports in SCHOOL, WHENEVER you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist.

One summer I was MADE housekeeper to my own family, MAKING menus and shopping lists. It was my mother's IDEA of teaching me to be a grown-up. The main thing I remember is my FATHER being so delighted to get ROAST duck.

Nikki LIVES AROUND the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still FRIENDS. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we PUT that BAND together.

I don't have a CAR in MANHATTAN because you have to CHOOSE between a car and an APARTMENT. It's that EXPENSIVE.

It's just my AESTHETIC: to WANT to FEEL a bit undone, effortless but not without STYLE.

It's that stubborn fixation on details that has invariably prevented me from GETTING EXCITED about celebrating each passing year. Which is why my friends know that doing things such as THROWING me SURPRISE parties would only serve to surprise me with an overwhelming sense of panic and ANXIETY.

The treatment from the Arnold Classic to the Olympia is, of course, a little BIT different, but overall the quality of the SHOWS and the way they are put on... I THINK they are the same. It's just that the Olympia has been around for so LONG, and it is considered the SUPER Bowl of bodybuilding.

I think that kids NEED to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great ENTERTAINMENT; you know, Judy Garland and all these MUSICALS that BRING song and dance and acting all TOGETHER in a polished way.

I come from a family of MISSISSIPPI sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of RACISM GROWING up - you can't AVOID that if you're a PERSON of color in this country.