The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.
If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
As a Business Ambassador, I am delighted to help both new and established British designers receive the recognition they deserve in the global fashion arena.
Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.
The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
I have a huge political interest. I just wish I had the courage to come into politics in India.
Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.
It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.
What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.
My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.
I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
