I did this movie with Spike Lee called Sucker Free City, and that would have to be my favorite role by far. It was just so much fun to work with Spike and shoot in San Francisco.

It's because the idea of what's cool is different. When you talk to a girl who goes to regular school, what's cool is whether or not you've been to jail, or if you have a car. If you talk to a girl who goes to art school, what's cool to her is if you do art projects on the weekend with your dad, if you can build something - out-of-the-norm stuff.

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.

Money always changes the game, when you let a dollar come between you and your friends, your cohorts.

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.