Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.
It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.
There's no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don't let others use it.
If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel like I was being spammed.
I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward.
What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.
If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.
I only wanna go up the steps toward a different level of stardom. The BET Awards was one of those steps, the VMAs was another huge step. And the next step, eventually, hopefully, would be the Oscars.
You cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new.
It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.
There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality. ' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.