We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.
I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again.
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.
Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
I love a woman, I love to judge how beautiful she is, how beautiful I can make her.
How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!
Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.
I'd go over to my grandmother's house, and she'd be playing opera. They loved opera. Not only did they play it on the radio, but they played it on their piano. Everybody learned how to read music and how to play.
I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.
When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.
No matter how much I think, no matter how much I try, I can't fill this void of loneliness in my heart.
No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.
When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.
If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.
People forget how fast you did a job – but they remember how well you did it
I don't know what's more tragic, knowing how to read and choosing not to, or not knowing how to read and refusing to learn.
I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.
Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I see young performers sometimes try and deliver that, and it's not really true to their voice or who they are.
