I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

Dancing With the Stars' is so Middle America, and people take it so seriously.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.