Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.

The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.

I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one.

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense

In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.