In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they're a little bit more aware.

Everything goes so fast that you wake up suddenly after 5 years and you just feel like you want to talk about different [things] than everybody in the group, you want to talk about your own things.

The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's more of the new trend, the new music that you have to like.

Music should always be just a celebration.

I've always liked fashion, I've always made sure that I was dressed properly; the way I looked was always important to me.

I've always liked fashion but maybe not to the point that I was so sick about it that I wanted to draw my own things.

Some are created to love, while the others - to live.

The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody.

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.

It happens sometimes that when someone has a camera, they change; sometimes they change for the better.

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.

You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.