Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.

I'm a power fanatic. I like to own things, and have them be mine. Acting doesn't belong to you, if you're not the writer or the director.

A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!

I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.