My advice for anyone who wants to follow in my footsteps: create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.

I hope everything works in our favor. The show is cool. It’s family fare. We ain’t aiming at the cheap seats. Instead, we’re making something with a broad appeal that people of any color or creed and from all walks of life can enjoy and maybe learn something from.

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen.