I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.

Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can’t just think, ‘I’m going to die anyway,’ because that’s what’s stopping us from moving forward.

I learned you really do have to make sure you enjoy life.

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

Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.

The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.