I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for Ray, I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. When you do something that stinks, it's going to last forever on the Internet. There's always someone in the audience with a camera phone and if you're not 100%, you're going to be watching yourself on YouTube.

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

When your movie is hot, your options are crazy.

Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

To be the leading man it's about the celebrity and the looks, and it's tough to do that. People who do it great are people like Tom Cruise and Will Smith - they're built for that. I ain't. I'm more of a character guy.

Yeah, anytime anybody has a kid, you know how you feel when you have a kid, you look at the world differently because your kid's in the world now. When it's just you, whatever happens happens but now you pay more attention to political things. You pay more attention to things because your daughter or your son has to deal with these circumstances.