There's nobody more opposite from John Shaft than a kid who worships a banana as his god.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

You know what? Fuel is what Fuel is, the X's are what the X's are. John used to band Banana Fish Zero had a lot of songs, too. But that's what that was, and that's where it's going to stay. So we're not doing any Banana Fish songs or Fuel songs, or any of the stuff that Chris and Mike have done in the past. We're doing the X's—that's what it's all about.

When you go into a film, you read it, and something clicks for you, and you like it, and you sign on for it; you go for it. You know that this is going to be a good film, and that is your best hope. Past that, it's a crap shoot - you roll the dice.

I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.

When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.