I'm The Artist When I'm Doing Music

My First Concert Makes Me Sound Like A Real Old Man. My Very First Concert Was Jackie Wilson.

I Keep Telling People I'll Make Movies Until I'm Fifty And Then I'll Go And Do Something Else. I'm Going To Be A Professional Gentleman Of Leisure.

Every Bad Decision I've Made Has Been Based On Money. I Grew Up In The Projects And You Don't Turn Down Money There. You Take It, Because You Never Know When It's All Going To End. I Made Cop Iii Because They Offered Me $15 Million. That $15 Million Was Worth Having Roger Ebert's Thumb Up My Ass.

Theres This Little Box That African-american Actors Have To Work In, In The First Place, And I Was Able To Rise Above That Box. I Could Have Done A Bunch Of Movies Where I Stayed As The Axel Foley Or Reggie Hammond Persona. But I Didnt Want To Be Doing The Same Thing All The Time. Every Now And Then, You Crash And Burn, But Thats Part Of It.

Making A Movie Is A Collaborative Effort And Sometimes All The Ingredients Don't Work Out. I Know That Every Now And Again I Am Going To Make A Movie That Won't Work.