It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.
Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation to the female gender Ain't nothin' better Let me know when it's wet enough to enter
But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.
When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.
You look in the mirror everyday and you see the same thing. As an entertainer, you wanna see something new.
I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.
If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.
I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like.
Sometimes your fans are way deeper than you are. They think you meant something like this big power-of-the-world thing that you said, but really you were just trying to find a word to rhyme with another word.
Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.
I live by the beat like you live check to check. If you don't move your feet then I don't eat, So we like neck to neck.
With music, you can portray a certain thing, but in film, sometimes you have to let yourself go to a point where that can be attractive to a person, that you're willing to let yourself go that much. It works both ways.
Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool.
I think it's real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like you don't have style at all, so most companies are getting rich off clothes that look torn, clothes that look worn.
When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it.
Those people online are analyzing everything both of you do. Andre, every new song you're on gets scrutinized.
Your white tee, well to me, looks like a nightgown; Make your mama proud, take that thing two sizes down.
A lot of people think that you easily get roles because you do music. I mean, you could knock on the door faster than anybody, but it doesn't necessarily get you in.
I'm a vegan, but I like to look good, too.
I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.
Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.
As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter.
The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it.
As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.
