I took everything really seriously and was overly sensitive about things, and I think that's rooted in perfectionism.
If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.
It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.
I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.
Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?
The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?
I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist. ' 'Ad Busters. '
I mean, the idea that it might help somebody out or help somebody make the decision to become a stewardess or otherwise. . . No, that's one of the nice things about making music or making movies, is that art does have the power to affect people. I feel really privileged to be a part of that.
Communism has established centres of infection. . . No area in the world is as vital to American security as the Caribbean. . . We need a massive injection of money to reset the country on its feet, and this injection can come only from our great, capable friend and neighbor the United States.
I always tell people that, if you feel like you're portraying a character really well, you're not acting. If you can reach that point where you don't feel like you're acting, than you're doing your job and the audience will believe you.
Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that account. It is only when an impressive nature is placed in contact with an impressionable one that the alteration in the character becomes recognizable. Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing.