The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited.

The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.

I won't lay down my principles for any kind of recognition or any kind of position or trying to be more famous. It's just not in me. I'd rather be a man. And then to have all this crazy stuff on my conscience.

I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run.

With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast.

Cool people still have a hard time showing what they got in Hollywood.

We'll burn your store right down to a crisp.