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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria, there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
When you're called by God, when He places that call upon your life, there is an authority you begin to walk in.
Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.
Most of my songs are about love, I am a 16 year old teenager and I sing about what is on every girls mind. Love
I'm a human. When I got hit in front of people of course I was angry so that's why my expression was like that.
All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond.
I'm very democratic about stuff. I know what I want, but I also like getting opinions and people sharing ideas.
Contrary to most people’s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision.
I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.
I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.
The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.
I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.
I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.
I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.
I'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring.
There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.
I just want to spend the rest of my life with someone who makes me smile, laugh, feel special, and supports me.
I think that personality traits that come through when somebody is really sincere is what makes them beautiful.
I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
I'm not that complicated. My complications come out in my songs. All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.
You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.
I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.
I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.
I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors and it's the shade that defines the light.
Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.
The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
I'm a tomato freak, but sometimes you have to get it in ketchup form for people to be able to open to tomatoes.
I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record.
The first tattoo I got was when I was 17, and it's a cross on my bicep with 'Only God Can Judge Me' underneath.
I don't do group sex. I don't like being in a roomful of all my homeys giving high-fives and yelling, 'Switch!'
All the girls walk by dressed up for each other, and the boys do the boogie woogie on the corner of the street.
The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.
Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.
Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.
Life is worth celebrating and worth living even though we're all headed to the same hole at the end of the day.
The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.
The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.
I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.
I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.
You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn't tame
I don't believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they've never heard before. That's just unreasonable.
I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.