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I have a really grounded group of friends, and they like me no matter what. I think it's really important to know who your real friends are.
Follow your heart and chase your dreams until you catch them. Negative people who say you cant do something are only speaking for themselves
For the most part I stand by all of records. I just always like the one I've done most recently the best and I think that's the whole point.
What's nice about being a producer is you get to roll the dice more often, and you get to be involved with lots of different kinds of music.
If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.
Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?
I didn't want to play it boring and safe. I also didn't want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they're even scarier than first ones.
I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.
I think America just needs to get real when it comes to the way our kids speak and communicate. They need to understand what happens in rap.
I think what I bring to the table overall is a sense of my own individuality, especially in the urban-male spectrum of what is here and now.
I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.
The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.
I love touring. But it's super nice to have a new reason to play shows that isn't based around that perennial cycle of album/tour/promotion.
Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.
Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets has disappeared.
A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to hit back."
If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.
In 'Winnie the Pooh,' a lot of the characters have serious flaws: Pooh is sort of a food addict. Rabbit is OCD, and Owl is a compulsive liar.
Classical music can be catchy, so can African instrumental guitar music. It's not just pop songs that are catchy. Rhythms can be catchy, too.
I never felt like there were things I couldn't express lyrically in Vampire Weekend. I was always proud of everything that we wrote together.
Let's go again to Niag'ra, This time we'll look at the Fall. Let's leave our hut, Dear, Get out of our rut, Dear, Let's get away from it all.
When I was starting as an anime director I wanted to be known for great things. I never wanted to be known for some overblown toy commercial.
I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.
I grew up fly fishing when I was a kid. The feeling of it is fun. I went fly-fishing on Lake Delaware once, and I caught a record brook trout.
I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000.
I've been lucky, because people have done such great versions of my songs, and I've worked with the best singers ever, and I'm lucky that way.
We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me- life is hard, but God is good.
I like to live life and not work every second of the day, and spend time with my family and stuff like that. Balance is very important for me.
What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?
I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.
I've had great people come in my life, meaning not just men, but women, support me and empower me. So that has lifted me to be the woman I am.
I certainly think that my music is a response to my experience as a person who doesn't identify as straight, as a person who grew up American.
I'm very fortunate and grateful to wake up every morning in the rural countryside I live in, looking at farmland and these beautiful mountains.
I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever.
I guess that 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 was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record.
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
I'm learning as I go. The music has drawn me out of my shell. It's made me open my door a little more and be able to look at people in the eye.
I really don't think that anybody's going to buy or not buy a Disturbed album and/or ticket because I am or am not wearing my labret piercings.
'Immortalized' is hopefully what music does for everyone in terms of emotions, in terms of experiences, in terms of being people who create it.
I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the new punk rock. LL Cool J was my biggest idol.
Music's something that I really wasn't pushed into, it was something I just kinda chose, I just kept pushing myself, and it was all down to me.
People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist.
I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.
One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.
I won't go into a big spiel about reincarnation, but the first time I was in the Gucci store in Chicago was the closest I've ever felt to home.
Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality. Working out, healthy bodies, organic food-they're all part of the same thing.
Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.
I want people to feel good about listening to this [Delta Machine] record, to get some kind of peace. It's just got something magical about it.
I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.