I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.