Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.

You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent.

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

I do happen to love Honey Nut Cheerios. I don't know if I want to walk down to the store in my pajamas for them. But I do love them.

You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.

People who tell you to stop living in a fairytale world are very likely people who live in a horror movie.

I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.'

By a quirk of culture and history, it could be that China has arrived today where many other 'more developed countries' will arrive tomorrow.

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

I'm walking this walk and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?