When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.

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

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

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

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.

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 retract the decisions we've made, we can only affect the decisions we're going to make from here.