In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior.

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

If you can, always be appreciative of the ebb and flow of the losses and the wins.

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.