A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

As an actor, I need to get excited about something that I can actually relate to.

Law enforcement has always had informants and people they've had to deal with, who walk a certain line. They're choosing between the lesser of two evils. They're befriend one person to gain access to another person, who's a bigger fish.

So often, when you're playing the lead in your own show, it is all about you.

I'm actually filming all the time, and I don't have much time to do anything. I've always been that way.

That's how it works in Westerns: the hero is minding his own business and trying to make a living, but he does something, the villain finds out about it and they have to have a showdown. So it's kind of a Western set to hip hop music.

When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five years - most of the people who live in Harlem are transplants. They migrate to Harlem from another place. A lot of them are from the south, so they bring those southern influences with them.