The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.

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

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.

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

I hear music as narrative.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.