When you’re a pop star, it’s a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

I think Ye is important to hip-hop.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

I can dance to just about anything.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

Me, as a person, I grow. I’m like a chameleon. You know? That is a gift and a curse for me. But more so a gift, because it never puts me in a box.

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.

Reggaeton is something else – it is part of pop culture. It is something very big that I don’t believe will ever die.

I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.

My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It’s not just 15-year-old girls. That’s kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you’d see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

Rock music is niche.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

I’m not going to do anything crazy, but I want to do music that I’m passionate about. I’m finally at an age where I can do the music that I grew up loving, which was urban pop, ’90s music. I grew up listening to the divas, so I’m very happy to finally do urban pop. I hope that it’s received well, and it has been so far.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

All great peoples are conservative.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

I don’t see myself as a pop artist. Like, when you hear ‚pop,‘ you’re like, ‚Oh, bubblegum, jumpy little girly stuff,‘ and I feel like, ‚Uh-uh. That’s not me.‘

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn’t happen. If that’s the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

I supported Donald Trump.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.