I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
“I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.”
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I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
“I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.”
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“I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.”
“I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.”
“I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.”
“I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.”
“I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.”
“I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't serious because I was smart. I wasn't like a true troublemaker, just rambunctious - like, talkative and trying to be funny. That was me in middle-school.”
“People can care about changing the world. But what gets them to act is pressure and social reward.”
“I don't feel the need to define nothin' to nobody, because I'm always changing. Why say that I'm this or that when I might not be tomorrow? I'm gonna follow my own feelings and my own heart.”
“I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.”
“When we first started we felt something changing in terms of work, and we felt it was a global shift. People were taking control of their future, not just in terms of making money. They wanted to control their own destiny.”
“If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.”
“As new technologies upend the economics of climate change, the politics surrounding the environment are changing, too.”