I don't play an instrument. I pretend. I try to.
I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.
I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.
My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.
Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do?
I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.
My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson.
I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
Women want love. Men want power. I want both.
I want the world to go away.
I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.'
Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.
I didn't expect us to be around after 25 years.
There haven't been many credible electronic covers records.
The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.
I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue.
A record co. is just a vehicle for public appearances.
All the really pretty girls get pregnant.
Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.
I never took any vocal training.
