Terrence Howard Talks Tunes, Family, Science : NPR

I like this interview. 

“I never felt grown until two weeks ago,” he says. “Two weeks ago, I became a grown man, because no longer did I have a light to follow. I had to become that light.”

But Howard says he is pleased that his mother got to hear his debut CD before she died, and that she was proud of his successes.

“This was her dream, to be an actor and a musician,” he said. “My dream was to be a physicist.” (That dream started, he said, when, as a child in Cleveland, he was contemplating why bubbles are round.)