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I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career mistakes.
In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.
Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
Kids are starting to dress the same, listen to the same music. I look at their Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.
I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.
I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.
If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.
I stopped writing lyrics down on paper after me and Jay-Z did 'Money In the Bank.' They're something I just hold in my mind.
Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.
Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.
Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I'm needed by someone. As long as you have that, you're healthy.
Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive - but that was totally subconscious.
People say, "I can't take you seriously because you're so young." But I think when you're young, what you feel is more pure.
I seriously feel like Bowie was an astronaut who went into space and experienced things and brought back these... treasures.
I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.
The record business. It’s exactly what it is-Record-Busin ess. You have to take care of both, or they won’t take care of you.
The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.
The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.
I represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.
Kendrick Lamar is the real deal. He's a real artist, and he's gonna be here for awhile because this guy is seriously talented.
I have the weirdest career in hip-hop, and I say that because I started so young. I started So So Def when I was 17 years old.
I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.
When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.
Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of it.
Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.
When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think.
I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.
We used to sit around and listen to the radio and not hear anything like the stuff we like, so we decided to play it ourselves.
If I can learn how to manage myself, why would I give you 20 percent and people are looking for me? It just doesn't make sense.
If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.
The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end.
I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.
If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.
There is very little genuine rock and roll out there at the moment - but Steve Conte has hit the nail on the head with this one!
I'm talented in other places, not only in songwriting, but music is always going to be the backdrop to whatever happens in life.
All the green-screen stuff - all the special effects stuff - I shot right there in my house, in the basement in my theater room.
You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do.
I don't put categories on music, myself. So either people go with it or they don't, and sometimes the names sound a little silly.
I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them.
Spiritually, I just have an innate feeling about things and individuals in life and I'm touched in that way that I can't explain.
I do love the idea that something can make you forget that you're listening and just transport you to somewhere else in your head.
Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.
One half was like, I hope this doesn't affect it, and the other half was like, it's great that people know I did a Beyoncé record.
I was the biggest Public Enemy fan - I think it's what inspired the aggression of N.W.A. We just took a different route lyrically.
Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.
Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing.
You've got to give someone like Cher a lot of credit. She's worked very hard to get where she is. I can't take that away from her.
People are getting record deals and they can barely sing. We have these new terms for artists that can dance, but they can't sing.