Where did you go to high school?

I went to high school in Oxon Hill, Maryland.

Oxon Hill High School.

Okay, and normally, high school photos are pretty lame.

They can be.

Mine was terrible. I grew a mustache.

I started a mustache. It was really, like...

I have a feeling you're going to show my picture.

I think it's only fair you show yours, too.

Oh, I don't have mine, sorry.

But I do have yours.

I'm sure you do.

But look at this. You're a babe.

I love you.

Look at the style.

Look at the style. Look at that.

Look at the style.

Look at that.

Come on. I mean, that's a professional picture right there.

Actually, it is.

It is, right?

Yeah, because I didn't like the photographer they were using for the, um...

In high school?

In high school. I didn't like it.

I just saw the pictures. I was like, eh, boring.

So I wanted to shake it up a bit.

So I went and found my own photographer.

Really?

I did.

You look fantastic. What a good style. - I took my wardrobe and all my different changes.

Yeah, I mean, you had the glasses matching the top with the shoulder pads.

The dolphin door knockers.

I had my name, the correct spelling of my name, in case you didn't, you know...

Yeah, of course, yeah.

Taraji wasn't the very... It wasn't the easiest name, you know.

No, it's not the easiest name, but you had style back then.

Thank you.

Congrats on Empire now. Season four?

Yes. - Already?

I can't believe it's four seasons already.

Time flies.

How's Terrence doing?

You got to tell him I said hi. - He's good. I will, I will.

He's doing good.

What's happening this season?

What do we got to know?

Oh, my goodness.

So, Terrence can't remember anything.

Well, Lucius, he can't remember anything.

From the explosion.

From the explosion.

He's this really nice guy named DeWayne now.

And Cookie's kind of over it.

She's over it.

She's over it.

She wants the roughneck back.

That's what she fell in love with.

That's right.

And now he's all too nice and gushy, kumbaya.

She's over it. - No, no, no.

In real life, you're kind of a kumbaya type of...

I'm very mushy.

You are, but you're also...

Aren't you very, like, zen?

Don't you meditate?

I do. I do meditate.

I'm getting into it. I'm getting into it.

What's your routine? Can you tell me?

Well, the thing is, a lot of people think when you meditate, you have to oom and burn candles.

That's one way to do it.

But a meditative state is just allowing your thoughts to run through until you quiet your mind.

You can do that just sitting in a chair looking off into the abyss.

Like, you don't have to oom.

I think people get overwhelmed when you say meditate because they think it's a whole ritual.

It's whatever you make it.

So, I literally, I'm in the house, I'll turn the music off, no television, and I'll just move around the house with nothing on.

My thoughts are still running.

I just don't try to answer questions or solve the world's problems. - It's a walking meditation?

Yeah.

Really?

It's a meditative state. You don't have to sit. It's just allowing your brain to calm.

Can you communicate with people?

No.

Like, if people go, "Taraji, hey, yo, are you in a zone?"

You know what? Sometimes in my meditation...

Just banging and stuff?

No!

Is it like sleepwalking?

I'm not in a trance.

No, Jimmy.

But what it is is that sometimes I will think about something enough that I will put it in the universe and it will come back to me.

That has happened a lot.

Really? - Yeah, a lot.

I believe that.

Little things. Little things like, I was thinking about...

Oh, I can't tell you. I'm sorry.

Cut. Take two.

What was the question?

I almost gave him some information.

You are so cute. Come on.

I love you so much.

I love Jimmy and I want to tell him everything but I can't tell you this yet, Jimmy. - Alright, that's cool.

I think I know.

Yeah, I know. Shh.

What are these things?

These are Tibetan singing bowls.

Now, this is something that I have to sit down and do.

But the vibration of the bowl will put you in a meditative state, because...

So your gonna [show] everyone how to meditate?

I'm going to show you how to do the Tibetan.

You have to do it.

To watch somebody do it is not the same.

No, no, no.

Watch first.

Dinner's ready, y'all.

Come on in. Dinner.

We got some grub. We got some grub.

Come on in, kids. Come on in, y'all.

Wait. I'm doing it wrong? What do you do?

Well, you could.... that's one way to do it.

But...

That really gets me really zenned out.

I'm really...

It's too relaxed.

Patience.

Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Can you hear it?

Is that real?

Yeah.

Is that coming from that?

Yes.

Are you kidding me?

It is coming from that.

I thought that was James playing the keyboard or something.

That was weird.

Dude, that just freaked me out, man.

That freaked me out.

How do you do that? - Try it.

You have to be very...

It teaches you....

You have to hold it, Jimmy. You have to hold it.

Do you feel it?

You're going too fast, Jimmy.

That's what she said.

I love you, man.

Taraji P. Henson, everybody. - I love you more.

Check out the new season of Empire Wednesday at 8pm on Fox.

She's fantastic.