It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

I think that rap is narrative, when it's done right.