I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
Thank God that the people that run this world are not smart enough to keep running it forever. You know, everybody gets a handle on it for a little while.
'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they are stylistically the opposite of what I wanted to do.
The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.
That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God.
I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I live in a 950-square-foot apartment with one bathroom and two sons.
Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.
You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.
You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.
With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.
I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.
I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys.
I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.
I've played so many historical characters because most horrible dictators are short, fat, middle-aged men.
I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.
The Stones can get out there and do it till they're old men. But certain groups are sad-looking to me.
I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
