On His Work Ethic: "…It’s unhealthy to have that much going on. [laughs] I don’t want to sound ungrateful or anything, but I sleep less, I’m constantly thinking, I’m constantly multitasking, and I really don’t know what the effects are going to be when I’m older. I don’t ever stop. Not because I’m greedy or anything, but I’m always creating, debating with the part of my brain that is dormant. Wondering how I can move in and create a bit more space and take a bit more time. But it’s almost like the more I achieve, the more capacity I have to achieve. I do worry sometimes about whether I’m going to burn out. Not burn myself out, but burn my art out, with audiences going, ‘Ah, yeah, I’ve seen enough now, thanks very much.’"

On Balance Music & Movies: "Anyway, what happened was, once I got The Wire, my life changed. I couldn’t DJ as much and I couldn’t take it seriously because my career as an actor was just getting to a place where I was finally making it in America. I wanted to be on American TV so much. I didn’t park DJ’ing; I just sort of ended up becoming more of a studio guy. I had a bit more money and I could buy every little piece of equipment and drum machine that had just come out—I’ve got quite a collection now— and I continued to collect music. Then about five years ago, my career blossomed, but I really missed being out on the road, DJ’ing. So I started picking up gigs here and there, and what occurred to me really quickly was that I was going to water down my passion for DJ’ing, because the type of gigs I was getting were celebrity DJ work, and that just didn’t sit right. So I made a decision about five years ago to really do it properly, to do it at that level I had never done it, but take it seriously and not ride the coattails of being an actor. It took a while because I had to take my time to introduce myself into that world: doing remixes, being taken seriously."

Plot: A group of bank robbers (Michael Ealy, Chris Brown, Paul Walker, T.I.), who specialize in spectacular robberies, are pulled into one last job by a recently paroled cohort, only to be pitted against a hard-boiled detective (Matt Dillon), who interrupts their $20 million heist.

Movie-goers were hooked on Beyonce this weekend as the superstar singer's taut thriller "Obsessed" clawed its way to the top of the North American box office, final figures showed Monday.

The film, which also stars HBO's "The Wire" gangster Idris Elba as a businessman whose life is turned upside down by an obsessive new colleague, earned 28.6 million dollars during its first three days in theaters, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations.

Youthful fantasy "17 Again," starring US teen heartthrob Zac Efron, fell from the top to second, raking in 11.5 million dollars.

Another high new entry, "Fighting," punched its way to third place, telling the story of small-town boy Channing Tatum trying to make it big in New York City. The fighting flick, featuring intense bare-knuckle scraps, took in 11 million dollars in its opening weekend.

"The Soloist," an inspiring musical tale based on a true story, starring actors Robert Downey Jr and Jamie Foxx, came in fourth with 9.7 million dollars in ticket sales, also in its first weekend.

Rounding out this week's new entries was Disney's "Earth" in fifth spot. The documentary culls nature footage from the BBC's landmark series "Planet Earth." It brought in 8.8 million dollars in its first three days.

1. "Obsessed", $28.6 million
2. "17 Again", $11.5 million
3. "Fighting", $11 million
4."The Soloist", $9.7 million
5. "Earth", $8.8 million
6. "Monsters vs. Aliens", $8.5 million
7. "State of Play", $6.8 million
8. "Hannah Montana: The Movie", $6.4 million
9. "Fast & Furious", $6.2 million
10. "Crank: High Voltage", $2.6 million