If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

Everybody is doing you a favor when you're doing a documentary. You can't pressure them into it.

Being happily married, I’m more focused on what I’m doing. Ya know, one of my quotes is ‘love isn’t looking somebody in the eyes; it’s looking out in the same direction.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.