"I'm endlessly putting myself on tapes for things over in America! I'm always sitting at home, learning lines, sending stuff to America."

"My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back."

"I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar."

"Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really."

"The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested."

"In films, you are a commodity. You are a look, something that the camera really likes, something that has struck an audience in a certain way. It's not really so much about transforming yourself the way actors do onstage. I think there's a difference between the skill of acting in movies and onstage."

"It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us."

"In the depths of adversity, the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."