To Be Able To Play Somebody That

Sometimes You Know About A Job Four Months In Advance. Sometimes You Know About A Job Four Days In Advance. It's All Different, And My Thing Is Just To Try To Stay Prepared. It's Like Being A Boxer. You Never Know When You're Going To Get Your Next Fight, So You Have To Just Stay In Shape, Mentally And Physically And Creatively.

The Thing About New York Is You Can Leave Your House Without A Plan And Find The Day. You Can't Do That In Los Angeles. You Need To Get In Your Car, All This, You Can't Just Drive Around Like A Lunatic. In New York, You Can Literally Walk Outside, And Wind Up Anywhere.

I Grew Up In New York City In The '80s, And It Was The Epicenter Of Hip-hop. There Was No Internet. Cable Television Wasn't As Broad. I Would Listen To The Radio, Hear Cars Pass By Playing A Song, Or Tape Songs Off Of The Radio. At That Time, There Was Such An Excitement Around Hip-hop Music.

I Love Doing Things That Are Titillating. I Think Race Can Be Very Funny, And I Think I'm Very Comfortable Discussing It And Bringing It Up.

I Heard Q-tip On The Jungle Brothers' Song 'the Promo.' It Was Very Exciting. It Was Very New. The Music And The Culture Around Hip-hop Was Evolving. I Think There's An Emotional Quality To Their Music And There's A Vulnerability To The Music. For Me, A Tribe Called Quest Was My Beatles.