"They say you shouldn't say nothin' about the dead unless it's good. He's dead. Good!"

"The tap dancers and the be-bop musicians influenced the pitch and pace of my work. And along with the Chitlin' Circui…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."

"[On the 2026 Gorton and Denton by-election] I'll be totally honest, when I heard Andy Burnham wasn't being selected, …"

"Whether we're talking about the cost of living crisis, whether we're talking about the genocide in Gaza, or generally…"