I'm A Performance Artist First;

I Got A Call From A Mutual Friend Of Ours, Charles King, Who's Also The Executive Producer. [steven Caple Jr And I] Had A Conversation About It. I Read It. We Kind Of Finished Each Other's Sentences When It Came To The Nuances And Personality Flaws That The Character Had, And Some Stereotypes And Things We Were Trying To Stay Away From. We Agreed On That As Well. He Just Kind Of Allowed Me To Run Rampant With The Ideas. As We Paced Ourselves Through, We Developed Turquoise.

My Nine-year-old Daughter Is Very Creative And Colorful And Trendy.

When People Are Going On To The Next Plateau Of Whatever This Thing Is Called Life, I Also Want Them To Breathe Easily, Even If It's The Last One They Take Here With Us. I Guess I'm The Welcoming Committee And Ushering Committee.

Whereas I Want Everything To Be Peaceful During A Birth, I Take The Total Opposite Approach When I'm Helping Someone Come To Terms With Leaving This Place - I Play Richard Pryor Records.

What Makes Me Furious, Not Just Because We're In An Interview, But I Don't Like When Writers Take Your Words And Put Them Somewhere Else, In The Wrong Context In Their Own Article About You.