My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.

If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.

It's great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn't consider viable employees.

A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.

I already enjoy cooking. I like different flavors and putting different things together and really like taking normal recipes to a higher level.

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.