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I love [my father] so much with all my heart and my soul with every bone in my body I love him so much because he's done so much for me.
We're a blip in the existence of the universe, and we're constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.
People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.
I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do.
I've always had this tremendous and very deep feeling of knowing my purpose, you know? It never dawned on me, it always very much known.
Have a good sense of perspective and be able to snap yourself out of bad moods, as we often wind ourselves up about the silliest things.
There always seems to be someone looking over your shoulder - just waiting for an opportunity to lecture on The Darker Side of Chocolate
My daughters are here, and that makes me feel good. And with the spirit of Nick Ashford, I think I'll make it through. I have no choice.
Do not be precious about your music within your own world. Try everything you want to try; just because it exists doesn't mean it's done.
I was working a corporate job for years and it always felt restrictive, it felt like I was doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing.
Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.
Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermes factory. Sh*t is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 per cent Jimi Hendrix.
There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.
It's motivation. Some people are gifted at specific things, but I had to develop. The thing I'm most talented at is the ability to learn.
I'd just like to be able to walk outside as everyone does and enjoy time with my friends, not feel bad for not wanting to take a picture.
I remember having my tonsils out when I was fifteen and waking up crying historically but not being able to stop. That was quite strange.
But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.
I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
Panging is the kind of sharp pain you feel inside when you're reminded of some kind of unattended need or something that you've neglected.
We had a master sergeant present us with the Bronze Star of Valor he had gotten because he had felt we were the eighth men of the platoon.
You have to decide what's important to you. For instance, myself, I mean, I lead a very, very straight-edge sort of lifestyle on the road.
I think there's no truer and more pure purpose than to be able to refine your art to a point where you feel it's as possible as it can be.
Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.
I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.
I didn't go to school for fashion, I didn't have anybody to teach me anything about fashion - that's all I knew how to do, graphic design.
I think artists like Justin Bieber really opened up a door for younger artists to be respected in the industry. I really like what he did.
This dope money here is Lil Treys scholarship Cause aint no to tuition for havin no ambition And aint no loans for sittin your ass at home
Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.
What makes your life different from the next n***a? There is something special about you, so let me help you bring out your individuality.
Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.
I think sometimes certain behaviour of men is seen as normal or usual - but it's never normal or usual to the victim, ever. It's horrific.
I admire Brian Eno so much in how he seems to push the idea of less being more - his touch is to crack open a window and let the light in.
I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
I like to do what I do in my house and I love to play shows, but I don't want to have to go out and talk to a bunch of people I don't know.
I grew up on the pirate radio scene which started out as drum 'n' bass music. U.K. garage picked up and got bigger on the back end of that.
My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.
Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth it.
So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.
My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.
If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’.
I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.
I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.
When I was coming up, I just wanted to play baseball and I'm doing what I love to do most. How can I feel pressure doing what I love to do?
Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.
It's the way I like to work for these kinds of songs [like "Peace Trail"]. It was the right time of the month; everything was looking good.
A lot of what being a producer is, is giving people space. Like psychologically being there to help them realize what they're trying to do.
I think as a producer, you're always sort of questioning if what you're contributing is something that an artist loves and elevates a song.
Worship must be - Christ centered, Holy Spirit led, a Response to the Father, about Intimacy and Service and always lead to Transformation!