If I were white, I'd get less criticism.
One day we're going to watch people fight to the death, like Roman times. Instead of being in a coliseum, we're going to watch it on TV.
I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.
I'm sure great scripts are hard to find, but I'm definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.
I'm just looking for interesting roles and giving acting the respect it deserves.
Music, for me, is completely self-indulgent. I write it, I play the instruments, I arrange it, I produce it. It's all about me - as it should be.
I've lived my life dealing with everybody. And that's how it's always been for me.
People feel they have to live that stereotypical lifestyle in order to be a rock star. You don't have to shoot heroin and act a certain way to be a rock and roll musician.
God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.
It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.
I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.
My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.
When I make music, I play it, I produce it, I write it. It's a very self-centered thing, not in a negative way. But I primarily work by myself, that's my process. When I'm acting, I'm there to serve the director and the character. I'm here to give you what you need. Communicate that to me and I will do what I need to do to get that. So that's what it's about.
A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.
Everything that I make I use.
God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.
This world is so crazy. So many things are based on popularity versus talent. So there's a lot of folks who are not so talented, but they're popular and they have "x" amount of followers on social media.
I just feel so good; it feels like a very creative time for me. As far as my mind, spirit, and body, I've never felt better.
Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.
You can start something, do it, and believe that that's what you're doing, but then the inspiration comes and it's like, "Nope, this is what it is."
When I'm doing interiors - especially the ones where you really have full creative freedom - it's about creating an environment for people to feel so comfortable and at ease. I want them to become inspired to live and feel better.
I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.
We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.
The most important thing for me is the moment, going from one thing to the next and hitting all the different levels and different points that make the whole what it is.
