The reason I got a break in Hollywood when I moved here a few years ago is my good buddy, who I was on the beach with when he was a publicist, is now the chairman of HBO.

Decide that no matter what is happening around you, the sun will always be shining in your world.

I live in hip-hop. I don't find it to be offensive.

I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.

That really is the best part of being a dad. You remember what's important in life.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.