That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I think girls have to play a little hard to get because we come with so much bravado.

What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

I live young and I keep the weight off of me.

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.

In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t worry. I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?