I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe.

A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.

Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.

I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.