I always look at that stuff as something that's not a separate entity from the music but a visual representation of the music. I feel like your external appearance should be in harmony with your internal appearance. That's mainly our approach to the visuals.
But you held your pride like you should've held me
I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.
You don't die if someone doesn't like you.
They hate you because you act like you're better than they are
I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies. '
We have a policy at The New Yorker,. . That is, if someone doesn't want to be profiled, we drop it. I would like you to show me the same courtesy.
Don't treat good guys like you treat bad guys.
It's a tricky time because people are going after the wrong people, too. There's a misplaced rage and aggression, that as a person in a public position you almost feel like you have to be perfect now when you express yourself. It feels almost unfortunate.
I found out if you're a funny guy, a lot of people like you.
A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.
Change the voices in your head. Make them like you instead.
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.
I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
It's like you don't know you're making a record unless you're half-killing yourself.
Just because you're wearing something that's like a gown or what have you, you should wear it like you can take your shoes off and put your feet up and what I realized is that most people I love fashion-wise, they wear clothes like that. An ease to it. I thought that was a nice tool.
I feel like you have to make art because you have to make it. But the end result of it- that last stage- you have to show it to somebody else to hopefully get a rise or reaction out of them- [to see] if it'll affect someone else.
Drive it like you stole it, homie.
When you feel like you've given all you've got! You gotta take one more step!
Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter or like you don't have a place in our American story because you do.