Nick Quotes

To me, a forever love is a bond that can't be broken.

I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.

If I have a talent, it's already been exploited! I've shown everything I can do to the public.

You can't love music without loving the Beatles.

I love 'Wild 'N Out' so much - one, because it's my baby, but also I get to see others succeed and go on to lead their own careers.

I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going.

When you don't have those types of things, fashion and all that stuff, it helps you find yourself because you don't have those things to rely on.

A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

I think my kids give mommy more attention than they give me.

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

I'm definitely light-spirited, but I just felt like my music had to have a little more depth.

Family is always first.

Clearly, everybody knows I can rap; I can freestyle all day.

I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism.

I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.

I'd love to do a film with Mariah. But it would have to be a comedy. She's the funniest woman in the world, she just cracks me up all the time.

My father...made us shop at Goodwill. I found things to wear and got Best Dressed (in the yearbook) two years in a row. I had lemons, so I made lemonade.

People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm probably the realest person you'll ever meet.

People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

Me personally, I wouldn't put my kids on television. But to each his own.

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

You're actually inside the surfboard... you're inside the landscape around you and the ocean is surging, you get totally inside the moment and it's so intense that time disappears, you disappear.

Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.

Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me

I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.

A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer.

Hamlet got a gun now.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

Into the mercy seat I climb My head is shaved, my head is wired And like a moth that tries To enter the bright eye I go shuffling out of life Just to hide in death awhile And anyway I never lied.

Most screen violence is tedious.

The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.

I've watched 'Oprah Winfrey.' And I'm proud. I don't care what anybody says! I don't know whether I've watched it. I've been in the room while it's been on.

No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

I've got some words of wisdom.

Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the same story.

The singing tells everybody what to do musically.

The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.

Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia.

It's an Australian thing to be dismissive. We find that endearing. Americans don't. They believe what you say.