“I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.”

I can read people, and if the other person doesn’t want to say anything,

I’ve always thought darker characters were more fun to play.

What is the key to life on Earth?

I have been in control of what Ive been doing, of the career Ive put together.

They’re probably not any more complex or interesting than their good, law-abiding cousins, and I’d always tend to see things from their point of view.

Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I’m lovely, I’m completely lovely.

I’m fine with that. People say things when it’s time to say them.

It is exciting to be off to a new land with a new friend.

For me, now, working and children is it. Theres nothing more to life.

Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

I don’t like [to] make a woman … an abstract concept of the fashion. I don’t like [to] say, “You must wear that.” … I am not a dictator.

You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like ‘I still go to the projects.’ I’m like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it’s so cool?

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

People wanted to make products based on our child’s name, and you don’t want anybody trying to benefit off your baby’s name.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

That was the greatest trick in music that people ever pulled off, to convince artists that you can’t be an artist and make money. I think the people that were making the millions said that. It was almost shameful, especially in rock n’ roll.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.