Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, "You're hip-hop!" You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.

You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.

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

We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.

I don't know if I'm built for marriage.

You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

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