Enrollment in colleges, especially black colleges, across the country increased tremendously during the five-year run of 'A Different World,' and I don't think you could have a better legacy than that.

'Super 8' was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun working with J.J. Abrams, who I think is a kid in a grown man's body, which is a great ingredient for any artist in our business. You have to be a kid at heart to be able to make believe, and his imagination is phenomenal.

I am crazy enough to think I owe the world a change.

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

I was a maverick. I went to five different colleges looking for I don't know quite what.

You can be involved in media, and you can be involved in all the handbag hurling that goes along with it, and it's a different world.