Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

I think having good family and friends really helps to ground you.

It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.

When I'm the person in front of the microphone, and I'm the person in the light, I want to reflect and refract the light onto places where they need the attention, where I don't need it.