It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.

My mother always told me to embrace both sides of my background. And she also taught me one very useful thing when I was going to first grade. She said, "You're Bahamian and African-American on one side, and Russian-Jewish on the other. You're no more one than the other, and it's beautiful that you have all this. It makes your life all the more rich. But society will see you only as black."

I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.

I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head.