Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

I spread love wherever I'm at. I'm like Marvin Gaye.

I like to do stand-up for people who live real life.

It's very important to be in your child's life and know what's going on and be there with them.

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.

Outside of show business, I live a normal life.

The actors are different, although I didn't set out to be different. My inspiration came from people like Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence and Will Smith. The genre is what it is. My inspiration was drawn from great movies like 48 Hours, Bad Boys and Rush Hour.