Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.

There shouldn't be any violence in hip-hop. You're getting free clothes. Basically, it's free money.

To me, it isn't tight sweaters. That's not what rap is. That's not hip-hop at all. Every phase went through changing up their dress styles and all that, but since Run DMC came out, it's been baggy jeans.

I'm glad that young black people are successful with the music. I'm not a hater.

I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

The dearest people around me are my family and friends.

Between acting jobs, I'd go visit my hometown and college town to see family and friends. But I would also teach acting, dance, singing, and audition techniques in high schools and colleges. I take great pride in all the survival jobs I worked, because I learned so much from them.

My mom, she thought I was the best. My sisters, maybe, but maybe that's not objective or anything. But if you believe in yourself, your family believes in you, you put in the work, do it right, you only need one other person to believe in you. That doesn't seem like a lot, but sometimes it is.