You can't pussyfoot around. When you're talking to lions, you can't meow like a pussycat.

Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.

You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin' the movie whenever they see it. That's what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them.

I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?

I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.

You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.

I think hip-hop has changed. When I first came out, hip-hop was more of a kind of way to learn about new places, new things. What are kids doing on the East coast, what are kids doing here. Then it left that and is like a party mode. I think it's going back to people wanting to get messages and wanting to learn things from the music.