Nelly Quotes
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Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.
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Don't stop ever loving me, you can always smoke with me.
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You think you had it bad when somebody put out a rumor on you in the school; think about somebody putting a rumor out about you on the Internet.
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Off in the coupe, spreadin' the loot with my family and friends, and my closest of kin.
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The fashion world has been great. We started Apple Bottoms about seven years ago; it's interesting to be able to create something from your perspective, for your fans and support. It's a little different for me, because about 70% of my fans are females.
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I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis.
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Some people actually said I fell off at Nellyville cause I didn't sell as many as Country Grammar. I'm like are you kidding me? Sweat and Suit? I broke history, I was the first rapper to have 1st and 2nd album at the same time ever on billboard.
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My whole staff love to laugh and count the money. On the couch, hands in our pants like Al Bundy.
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I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.
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Your own destiny, create your own recipe.
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Imagine blocks and blocks of no cocaine, blocks with no gun play.
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I think rappers are the fall guy because some of us don't have the wits to point the finger back. The thing is when you take a whole generation and whip them out, string the mothers out and put the fathers in jail - the reason I know respect is because my father is the mediator between me and my grandfather. I'm the mediator between my son and my father because I'm old enough to understand where my father is coming from and young enough to understand what my kid is trying to do. When you whip out the mediator the kids run wild and the old people are scared of them.
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Yoga has been something that's always there to take with me and practice throughout any journey. There's no place I've ever been where yoga hasn't fit itself in. I currently work on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska and I am still able to find time to lay my mat on the deck and practice what makes me the best me I can be, thanks to yoga.
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You always get that energy, you just want to be heard, to go out, do your thing and show people that we have just as much talent here as everywhere else.
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I believe everything happens for a reason.
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Sometimes a relationship is what falls cause it's not fair that, that person has to fit inside your life or you have to fit inside that person's life.
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I'm not a big crier.
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I love speed. I love racing cars, whether it's on the streets or wherever. Don't tell the St. Louis police, though.
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Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.
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Proceed to not smoke weed around the seed.
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I stand for the Midwest. That's why the album's titled 'M.O.,' 'cause I'm still holding it down like that. My friends and family all call me Mo, so it's kind of like really representing where I'm from and me at the same time.
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How many people out there really set a budget?
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Smoke that herb and clear your mind.
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I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.