Me Quotes
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them.
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A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
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A barrier for me – which has been both a strength and a weakness – has been my taste. The kind of things I'm interested in aren't always mainstream.
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.
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I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.
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I had really no sense of style. Everyone around me in my family had the sense of style - I learned as much as I possibly could.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
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MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.
