I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!
Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.
My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.
I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.
If Barack Obama is elected, I'll be moving out of the country.
I think K-Pop is a type of expression.
It is not a coincidence that Fusion middleware and applications have the same name. We knew what we needed it to be.
The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.
The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
So much emotion goes into writing fiction.
It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me.
So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.
Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.
On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.
In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.
Making people laugh is the lowest form of comedy.
I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.
I'm very fond of piano players.
I knew about Elvis. Of course, everybody knew about him then.
We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner.
