Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
When I'm working I actually forget to eat. I don't eat sweets because I don't care about them. I have no real secrets. I just realize that as I get older I should stay strong so I exercise more.
You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.
I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.
Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but.
When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.
One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.
It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and after. That's not something we learn much in our culture growing up.
Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature. -Belief or unbelief is a test of a man's whole spiritual condition, because it is the whole being, affections, will, conscience, as well as the understanding, which are concerned in it.