T La Rock Quotes

I just feel fortune just to have been lucky enough, and worked hard enough, and blessed.

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

I just don't like being told what to do.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

I like to make music, I like rap music. Even if I'm white, I support that music. If I want to support it or any other white kid wants to support it more power to them.

I get a feeling of peace from a low so high, as I sit in my chair and watch life go by.

I always believed it would happen and stuck to my guns.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

If people had good albums, they'd be buying albums. But people are buying singles because they only have good songs.

I don't sit in my room and hide the whole time. I think people know my spirit is real.

There's always a Justin Bieber. Ever since I've been around, there's always been one of him.

When I started out I thought I might make a little money, get some girls, get a taste of the rock 'n' roll life. It's gone way beyond that.

I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.

My good friends call me Bobby.

You're not going to get anything politically correct out of me.

The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power.

Playing a concert for 2 hours is pie. I would do that every minute of every day if I could. I love to perform. It's the 22 hours before the next show that kills you.

Getting married was a ball. Being married was... a nightmare.

My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.

Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it's kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don't what else I can say about it. It's a great thing to do, something I'm definitely proud of.

Chris Rock is a good friend of mine, and he is hysterical.

Bringing people together is one of my favorite things... I believed that's what a rock 'n' roll Jesus would really do - bring people together through music.

I said it's all good and it's all in fun Now get in the pit and try to love someone

I don't make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right.

And now that Martina McBride knows of T.I., and T.I. knows of Martina McBride, that made me very happy, too. It's introducing worlds to different people and bringing them together with a song.

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white

Well, I was into music since I was a kid, ya know, back in Detroit. I say Detroit, but it was really a little suburb outside the city called Romeo.

I don't want to be tied down. I don't want to settle down. I don't want I love you.

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

I have always touched on different genres whether it has been hip-hop, country and the rock element.

I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.

I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.

Of course I want people to show up to the concerts and I am sure for that to decline would be a difficult thing.

I love women and I love the women I have been with. I always try to be kind and cautious and treat people nice.

I'm single and loving it. It is always weird talking about that stuff. When someone is talking about who they are going out with, I am always like, who cares? Talk about your music or something.

I've got friends who didn't vote. I want to smack them upside the head.

I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do. And at the end of the day, whether it works or not, I can say I tried my best.

I've always had a love of country music.

The personal antics have overshadowed the music. I never wanted that but I knew what I was getting into when I got into everything I got into.

I'm thankful that I proved myself in music which is my first love, my first passion before I got involved in this media. I am hoping to bring it back to the music now.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

Being married sucked. Maybe for some people it is not meant to be.

Europeans don't seem to have the groupie mentality.

Every morning I stand on my head and do a yoga workout.

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