[Music] business can drive you to do that if you don't have it here. If you're not strong-minded here, it could steer you the wrong way and when it steers you the wrong way, then it might take forever to get back.

My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career.

Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.

I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that.

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

It's weird because every movie that I do is always a role that reminds me of a role that 'Pac would have done. And when 'Pac did 'Juice,' he was young - probably like 21, 22 - something like that. And that's my favorite actor. I know it might be weird to say, but he was talented on screen, and that's who I studied.

Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.