It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.
What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.
And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.
I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.
I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.
When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.
I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.
If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.
I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.
It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.
I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.
I am not an optimist. I'm a very serious possibilist. It's a new category where we take emotion apart and we just work analytically with the world.
Make it a point to choose the right backer, make your investments wisely, and do the work of the Lord which guarantees exceeding and abundant eternal benefits.
You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.
Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
Just to get the actors to relax, listen to each other, and actually affect each other, there are a number of techniques you have to learn, and they don't all work on every actor.
If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.
