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

Mike Tyson's life is one of the most amazing American stories.

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

Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.

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

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.

When you sing R&B songs in front of an audience, you look out and there's 85% women. I think R&B music is sort of designed for a man singing to a woman. I don't sing it like the sexy thing, but sort of pseudo-sexy. We rally the women together because it's about being independent and things like that.