Music has always helped me stay creative and grounded because I'm traveling and shooting and trying to understand other people. Music was something I could just sit in a room and make with my friends.

Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

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.

I do think women are unfairly judged by their physical appearance, but I don’t think it had anything to do with being mixed-race. In my opinion, mixed-race people are the most beautiful.

I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience.

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.

Artists also have the responsibility of reflecting the truth.