If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.

You can't love music without loving the Beatles.

In so many areas, when you think about it, you never really see an actor cross over to music. It always music to acting and it's receivable because when music gives a form of entertainment of art to where it's very personable, it's a passion, it's an intimate type of art to when you hear it, it's them.

Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.'

I'm definitely light-spirited, but I just felt like my music had to have a little more depth.

When you don't have those types of things, fashion and all that stuff, it helps you find yourself because you don't have those things to rely on.