You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

I know I ain't too old. I always think of my fans about 10 years older and 10 years younger than me.

Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it's cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing.

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.

I don't cook gumbo, but I just know it's a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients.

I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most.