It's always been jewelry, clothes, appearance. Those are things that compete with the car. But the car is the ultimate. Get that car right and it doesn't matter what you got on or what you wear once you step out of that car.

I think that my "Let's get it done! Let's have fun! Let's make a great movie!" attitude helped. I rarely have problems on my movies with egos and attitudes.

The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s.

Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together. They would rather make us laugh than cry, in some respect.

Keep doin' what you're doin', fall in love with what you're creating, and everything else will fall into place.

I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.

I don't listen to nothing while I'm in the studio, because I don't want to be influenced by anybody else.