One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert yourself, be macho, not let anybody walk over you, so that's where all this unnecessary bullshit comes from - from egos. That's why there are a lot of fights. That's how come the whole thing with rap has been violent. It's because of the male ego.

It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of people don't see that.

You can tell how good a filmmaker is if you can turn the sound down but you can still feel the story.

When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.

All we want in this life is peace, prosperity and a little paper...