Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
I love N. Y. C. ! I cant think of any individual that hates New York.
The second album is the hardest to write. Its nothing like the first album.
Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.
The most time I spent home in 2009 was about a month.
When youre a kid, youre only exposed to whats going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.
New York feels vibrant It feels electric to walk the streets at night.
Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.
The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (. . . ) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written in Malayalam and finely translated into English by the author -- the timidity of our own English talent for political satire is embarrassingly laid bare. For this is dangerous stuff, and cut close to the bone. (. . . ) Fiercest of all is Vijayan's Voltairean recoil from Indian cringing to power.
Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.
Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.