Dude if he starts scatting again, just run.

Terrence Howard did his best impression of a smooth jazz DJ in an interview with NPR recently, and at some point he was asked about being replaced by Don Cheadle in the Iron Man sequel.  Howard claimed to have been blindsided by the news.

It was the surprise of a lifetime. There was no explanation. [The contract] just…up and vanished. I read something in the trades implicating that it was about money or something, but apparently the contracts that we write and sign aren’t worth the paper that they’re printed on, sometimes.
[After agreeing that the business of Hollywood is no different than the business of pimps] And promises aren’t kept, and good faith negotiations aren’t always held up.

Seems to refute earlier reports that the sticking point was Howard wanting more money. But keep in mind, during other parts of the interview Howard describes the “father” of a song he wrote as a fictional encounter with characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray, and its “mother” as “the love that makes people truly beautiful.”

I guess what I’m trying to say is, take Terrence Howard statements with a grain of salt, as he appears to converse solely in hippie beat poems.  More highlights after the jump (trust me, they’re good).

[Of learning music from his grandmother]
“She would sit down at the piano and teach me the relationship between A and C and G – why they were best friends, why they would… talk to each other.”

[Of watching her onstage]
“It was as if watching the glaciers move, not retreat but advance.  It was watching that.  It was something… majestic to watch a mountain slide across…  I have a song in which I ask, “Have you ever seen a mountain cry?” Well they do.  I was talking about watching her.”

“Likewise with music, you cannot lie with notes.  It has to be honest, it has to be truthful.  You can tell a part of a truth and keep looping it, and manipulate someone… but you will not get anything to grow from that.  You have to put the truth in line.  And it will fit in any genre, in any world.”

“I wanted to see if I made the music scientifically or physically accurate according to the measure by which everything in the universe grows or expands, which was the Fibonacci sequence you know, how ripples expand in a pond, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13…”

Sweet Jesus.  And I promise I’m not even really taking these quotes out of context.  Long story short, I really just dig, like, the vibe Terrence Howard’s got goin, man, you know?

**puts on beret and starts wailing on the bongos**