It's not so much a question of whether we've shot it through 35mm or digital video; what is important is whether the audience accepts it as real.
I don't steal things. I'm rich.
Beyonce, to me, doesn't have a f--king Purple Rain, but she's the biggest thing on Earth. How can you be that big without at least one Sweet Home Alabama or Old Time Rock & Roll?. . . People are like, 'Beyonce's hot. Got a nice f--king a--. ' I'm like, 'Cool, I like skinny white chicks with big t--s. ' Doesn't really f--king do much for me.
I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.
Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.
If I was president of the good old U. S. A. , I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.
If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But. . . If its real. . . you'll feel it.
I like feeling a bit of an outcast where I am. I've always been that way. Somehow, I fit in by not fitting in.
My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.
The Middle East is hopeful. There's hope there.
America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.