Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back, because he's coming out the back."

I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

Everything I talk about in stand-up is my experiences as an American, as a father, as a husband, as a black man, as a human being.

Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.

My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life after him. He wanted me to do better than he did. He never sold a record in his life, but to me he was still a rock star.