I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.

You have to take care of your body, you have to rest, drink water, try to eat well, and then on top of that, you use makeup to highlight your beauty that comes from your health.

I'm still not really planning on pursuing a music career. I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.

I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.

I think less is more in terms of makeup in general.

Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.

I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't like the way they were representing black people over and over and over again in the same way.