Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
Music has always been around with me.
I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read.
Every now and then, when I think about it, I think, 'What would I even talk about onstage?' It's never been, 'I wonder if I'm funny. I wonder if I can come up with jokes.' It's more, 'What would it be like without the leather suit and the anger?'
You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'
I've been a big Bob Marley fan forever. Forever. Like big, huge. Bob Marley and the Beatles, that's my big, giant music influence. I can listen to them all the time.
You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.
I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and that's how I make a living - and from acting - but I never stopped playing and producing and recording music.
There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.'
'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.
Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harvard for the comic actor.
If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
