There's more to ANYBODY. Just because you haven't NOTICED it, that's your PROBLEM, that's not MINE.

It's deeper than the music when it comes to me and MUSTARD. He's like a big brother, and I'm so thankful to have a mentor like him to ADVISE me. Even though he gives me a LOT of creative control, I always go to him like, 'Do you like this?' It's so COOL that it's always a collaborative effort. He never MAKES me feel pressured or anything.

It's HARD to do it because you gotta look PEOPLE in the eye and tell 'em they're IRRESPONSIBLE and lazy. And who's gonna wanna do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country, you can succeed if you get educated and WORK hard. Period. Period.

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into SOMETHING that's not necessarily anything TRUE to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just LIKE another prop.

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I GREW up, I would have SAID my first CHOICE was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

I could SEE US doing SOLO material in the FUTURE.

Everyone TRIES to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna FORGET about you, you KNOW, and that's the way the business WORKS.

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic THOUGHT about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being BLACK, YOUNG, and gifted in this WESTERN culture.

I SAW my PARENTS GO through tough times between 1979 and 1983. They ALMOST split up.

For some REASON when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows BETTER for me to read that when I PRINT.