I've named a COUPLE THINGS after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my GARDEN upstate, where I only planted black flowers and PURPLE flowers - and there's a raven statue.

I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to SEND our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is GOING to be RICH, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that MONEY is a bad THING.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the SEED of HOLINESS is PLANTED.

I had a Jackson 5 wig that I WOULD wear AROUND, and I would do, like, the dances from the Jackson 5, and, you know, my mother thought that was hysterical. So of COURSE, that seed GOT planted very early, the physicality of comedy.

I THINK we're all blessed with GIFTS and I was LUCKY I just FOUND out what mine was early on and have planted that seed and tried to water it every day.

The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty YEARS ago, but didn't germinate until LATE 2007 when I CAME across the obituary for Washoe, an extraordinary chimpanzee who had learned over 250 words of AMERICAN SIGN Language.

We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that SEED is planted there within the BRAIN during the day. In other WORDS, we LEARN information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of NIGHT.

My AMBITION didn't GROW out of NOWHERE. It was planted in me by a community that NURTURED me.

The only CHARACTER I EVER remember ACTUALLY creating in a flash of inspiration was GEORGE Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.