I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.
I came from battling, knowing about the lyrics. All that's cool, but if you want people to love you, you have to talk to them about what they go through.
But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice.
The sexiest thing about style is if you kind of just take your personality and put it in what you wear. That's what I think is cool.
Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter.
My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
No matter how long you play rock n roll songs might change just as the balls are there, the rock balls. And that's what's important to us.
That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.
It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out.
I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.
For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.
So what it means is when you don't believe in the inevitable, it means you don't expect that that's how things have to turn out. You can change them.
I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.
I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it.
When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that's terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about.
To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success.
Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.
The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.
If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.
Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.
