You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.