The most important thing for me is the moment, going from one thing to the next and hitting all the different levels and different points that make the whole what it is.

I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some gangster or street guy, or pimp, drug addict.

I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.

You need to open up so that more comes through. And you can just feel that when your ego is not in the way and when you're letting it be what it wants to be. You have to let it be what it wants to be as opposed to what you think it should be.

Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while in office, not for his skin color. I certainly believe he has the capacity.

Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.

You can start something, do it, and believe that that's what you're doing, but then the inspiration comes and it's like, "Nope, this is what it is."