I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare. ' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them. '
I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.
I moved out to L. A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.
I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most children's teddy bear. I took it with me everywhere. I slept with it. I couldn't live without my whale.
Alex [Da Kid] does have diversity, not just in what he produces, but what he hears. He has this knack for finding talented people.
I lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon, and I'd basically given up on the music industry for an indefinite amount of time. And while I was out there, I came up with a very specific vision of what I wanted my music to sound like.
Mazomanie doesn't even have a stoplight, so it doesn't do a lot. But the cheese curds there are unbelievable. I've never had them anywhere else, even at places in California that claim to have the real thing. There's a cheese factory in Arena, Mazomanie's neighboring town, and they'll give you fresh curds that are so amazing.
Pathological states are the consequence of several determinate factors acting simultaneously. . . The manifestations of any given agent differ profoundly from one person to another. . . . Each noxious agent can express itself by a great variety of different pathological states. . . . Different agents can elicit similar reactions. . . . The total environment and the (interior medium) constitute a multifactorial system.
I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.
You know, bud, I don’t know you from Adam, but that’s my baby sister you’re hanging on to. So I’m thinking the wisest course of action for you is to let her go and introduce yourself. Pronto. (Rain)
I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.