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!

The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.

If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It's the people that don't have a chance, that we look down at like they're monsters or they're animals or that they want something different than the rest of us.

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 always was like, "Yo, I'm here, I might as well get what I could take."

What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.