I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it’s just, um, It helps me, you know, like whether it’s stand up or singing or act. I just try to stay true.

It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'

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

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

In L.A. you can hide. I can hide at the beach, hide up in the hills. In Miami everybody is looking at you.

I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.

Every two, three years there is a movie about the Holocaust because they want you to remember and they want you to be reminded of what it was. When was the last time you seen a movie about slavery?