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I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere. Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere.
Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.
At that point, when songs got leaked, it was cool though too because then you started getting recognition beforehand.
You look for stars. You look for the makeup of artists who can have long lasting careers and who could be headliners.
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you "do this or that" to make it as an actor.
A lot of movies will deliver on the promotion but when you go see them, everything you laughed at was in the trailer.
I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.
There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so.
Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards.
Once you share what you're communicating with your audience, then you can make more sense of it in a subconscious way.
Rivers of tear drops, these sharp pains in my heart, if this was the way that you love, you never should have loved me
I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.
There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now
The original version of 'Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang' was made to a Boz Scaggs song; I can't remember the name of the song.
I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles.
I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the movie.
I'm ready to run a studio. I'm ready to green light movies, and be in it to win it, you know? It's close. It'll happen.
I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.
What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
Lots of people say it's the song. For me, it's not always the song - there's something bigger: the spirit of an artist.
I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.
If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.
In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.
If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.
People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen.
It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.
In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.
Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
When we awaken to the beauty of nature, the doors to our true self are opened up wide, for divine healing on all levels.
When people try questioning my artistry or what it is that I do, it's because it doesn't look like everybody else's art.
What I look forward to the most is influencing an individual to go out into the world and make the world a better place.
I don't have too many pests. My concept is this: I manage myself, and there's nothing wrong with people having managers.
I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.
I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while making music.
I've learned to use things like softness and vulnerability as weapons against the things you feel ashamed of in yourself.
Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.
It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.
I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do.
I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.
We'll be getting rid of these people here... First, Mr. Samir Naga... Naga... Naga... Not gonna work here anymore, anyway.
I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'
'Honey' was the first song I wrote where I was really enjoying myself again after questioning the idea of being an artist.
I don't know much about making films or TV programs, but what's cool about being in the studio is that you have more time.
Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
Internally, we have so many different parts, both positive and negative. And if you force them together, a spark comes out.