It's just a wild experience to have thousands of people stand up and cheer for you.

I was a funny kid growing up, and I did improv in college and went to Pratt Institute, but I did it very informally. It was just me and some of my friends goofing around on campus.

As scary as it is, we have to admit that there are folks in the world who only know the Roots as 'the band on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.''

I'm a sucker for two things: Adam Lambert and songs that start out as emo as a sad episode of 'Felicity' and then drop. That. Beat.

If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month stamp.

I love how Shakespeare can really rip your heart out one second and then make you laugh the next. He's a master writer.

The great thing about being a standard-issue, straight white person is you have so much time. Gay people, people of color, we have less time! We have to be a living Learning Annex to everybody. We don't have time to master hobbies like skipping rocks along lakes.

I am a workaholic - my family will agree with that.

Spending $40,000 on shoes is downright ignorant.

I'm easily frightened and am somewhat of a squeamish person.

The 'X-Men' franchise has not been a perfect one.

Say what you want about Maroon 5 not making music like the kind found on 'Songs About Jane,' the fact remains that they know how to write a really good pop song that highlights lead singer Adam Levine's falsetto.

One of the great things about 'The Voice' is that all the judges sing their own hits, as well as covers, and do duets with each other.

Normally, I'd believe that the saying 'There's no small parts, only small actors' is a load of crock because, more often than not, actors relegated to the small-part category stay in 'Who was that guy from that thing' purgatory - however, '90s sitcom 'Friends' proved that the saying is true.

The Roots know how to give their audience some medicine without them even realizing it.

'Ain't It Fun,' which is about entering the real world, is bouncy and shows off Paramore's lighter side, to the dismay of some of the band's fans, who are used to the punk-rock sound.

I am a grizzly New Yorker.

I don't think people realize what it's like for people of color to audition for film and TV.

Feminism is being broken open, to welcome more people than just white women of a certain class.

From the leg lamp to Ralphie's tongue getting stuck on a frozen pole to that BB-gun incident, 'A Christmas Story' has left its mark on all our brains, so much so that it sometimes feels like this story is our own.

The reason I was drawn to the Band Perry was because they have a knack for doing rollicking country music that can sound a little rock and a little pop.

Who can forget the awesome scene in 'Independence Day' when the White House gets blown up by aliens? Sure, it looks cheesy now, but back in 1994, it was incredible.

Not going to lie: when I heard that Toni Braxton's sister, Tamar, wanted to have a music career, I was skeptical. I know she sang backup for Toni and is a great reality-TV star, but being a musician is a whole 'nother league. Well, Tamar proved me wrong.

Sometimes when people start dating a hot piece, they take on some of their boo's characteristics unintentionally.

I love any TV show that has to do with singing.

If I'm going to be completely honest, I did not get the appeal of IFC's 'Portlandia' initially.

I have to admit that I was never into the boy band craze of the late '90s and the early aughts. I was into more adult things like Ricky Martin. For reals.

While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

People say children are charming because they tell the truth. That's a lie. I've got five of them. They only tell the truth if they're in pain.

We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

Laughter brings out the child in all of us.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

If you took your child to the dentist and check for cavities, the child likely won't get them. If you take them just for emergency, that's all they're gonna get.

There are teachers in the United States who cry in the daytime because they see a child or children who haven't eaten properly, children who haven't used soap in so long.

Some authority on parenting once said, ""Hold them very close and then let them go."" This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).

My wife and I have five children; the reason we have five children is because we do not want six

Your parents put a curse on you - Someday your kids are going to act just like you.

Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.

There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

A child who is disciplined will be more obedient and also more organized as a student.