If You Can, Always Be Appreciative Of

When You Sing R&b Songs In Front Of An Audience, You Look Out And There's 85% Women. I Think R&b Music Is Sort Of Designed For A Man Singing To A Woman. I Don't Sing It Like The Sexy Thing, But Sort Of Pseudo-sexy. We Rally The Women Together Because It's About Being Independent And Things Like That.

I Didn't Have A Knee-jerk Reaction Like Some People Did To The Language And The Violence. My Stepfather Was A History Teacher At Lincoln High School In Dallas. So, I Was Already Familiar With The N-word And The Brutality Of Slavery. What I Was Drawn To Was The Love Story Between Django And Broomhilda And How He Defends And Gets The Girl In The End. I Thought It Was Just An Amazing And Courageous Project.

But Don't Get Caught Out There Looking Goofy. It's Weird. When You Do Something That Stinks, It's Going To Last Forever On The Internet. There's Always Someone In The Audience With A Camera Phone And If You're Not 100%, You're Going To Be Watching Yourself On Youtube.

And Perfect Happiness? Man, That's A...the Pool Is About 92 Degrees, The Jacuzzi Is About 102 And An Avocado Farm.

You Know What? I Never Really Factor Hollywood Into Anything. I'm A Black Actor, So I Can't Really Control What Hollywood Thinks. I Gotta Go Do My Thing, And My Jokes Have Got To Be Funny. Whatever I Do Has Got To Be Great.