"I have absolutely no understanding of the word no. Not yet or not now is as far as you can get with me. - Jeffrey Katzenberg co-founder of DreamWorks, Entertainment Weekly, October 7, 2005
"Rule #17 - Eat all you want... You're already fat!" - Bravo ad for Great Things About Being Fat
"I'm not wearing any underwear on the Warped Tour. I'm gonna have to change it every second; rather than do that, I'm just not gonna wear it. I was nervous that I was gonna get some crazy rashes, but I've been doing really, really well. I've been doing a lot of baby-wipe showers. When you're hanging out with no underwear on, you feel a little freer. Underwear kind of feels like chains, so it feels like a prison break."
- Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy, Spin, October 2005
"There are so many self-imposed rules in rock-n-roll. Alternative culture even has a certain rigidity. It's ironic since rock is such a liberating thing. It's so white to worry about things like that. Hip-hop guys.. they're not afraid to be successful. It's embraced. You're supposed to be a superstar. In rock'n'roll, and especially alternative rock, it's looked at like, well, you're not supposed to be up there. It's taboo. And it ends up making for conservative music." - Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day, Spin, October 2005
Something went wrong with my context last year - I think it might have been the um, crack. The word is so funny. Crack! I quit that, it was a bad phase. My problem was, you think they're talking about you on TV? Well, they were talking about me on TV. You think you're being followed? I was being followed. You think you're phone's being tapped? My phone was being tapped. It was like crack-plus."
- Courtney Love, Spin, October 2005
"I never really thought about making music until I started watching videos on BET. It was all about a complete aesthetic. Big Boi and I would be watching videos, and we'd say, 'Let's do it!' because so many of them were wack. It was like, if they can do it, we can do it." - Andre 3000, Spin , October 2005
You reach a certain age and go, 'Oh well, I'm never going to be in the Olympics, so I can just give up that.' You just start checking them off: Things you don't have to worry about anymore. You don't have to worry about being the ingenue, or being cast as Tom Cruise's girlfriend ever again. You don't have to worry about being thin enough to be on the cover of blah blah blah. Nobody cares anymore. I'm 42 years old - nobody gives a shit!
- Jodie Foster, Entertainment Weekly, Sept. 30, 2005
"I tell everybody that 40 is the new 20." - Sheryl Crow, Entertainment Weekly, Sept. 30, 2005
"I hate to say it in all actuality, but the biggest rapper in the game is 50 Cent.."
- Juelz Santana, XXL November 2005
"You know it's ironic, people see my skin complexion and they think, white kid = marketable. They don't realize that although that may hold true in the mainstream, I've had to work that much harder to earn the respect from the streets. I'm out here grinding every day to make sure that the hood is behind me, because that's where this all starts. You think it's hard to gain attention from major label a&r's? Nah..try impressing a cell full of dudes who want to eat you, standing out like a flashlight in a room full of straight murderers; now that was experience. I have been shut down by some very prestigious companies and individuals who target 'the streets,' before ever hearing my music. I'm out here to earn respect, and if I can't earn it, I'm going to steal it. Watch me." - K-Cino, October 2005
"I wrote Jay a letter and told him [he and Dame] was the parents of a Roc-A-Fella. When two parents separate and leave it up to the children to decide what parent they going to live with, you destroy the natural bond between the children.. Right now I'm not with Damon Dash Music Group and I'm not with Roc-A-Fella Records. I'd rather back away and try to help mend my friends." - Beanie Sigel, XXL November 2005
"I'm going to be still playing hard, out of control, just wild like an animal. I need to be caged in. I'll let the referees handle it." - Ron Artest, Preseason game against the New Jersey Nets, October 11, 2005
"If I had to give a definition of music, Off the Wall would be it - all the orchestration, the production, and the instruments, it will never go out of style. Even today, you go into a club, you might hear "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" or "Rock With You" and the club goes crazy. This is how we should remember Mike. When he was just an artist with the fresh afro, the big bow tie, the big nose. They invited me a bunch of times to Neverland, but I never went." - Nick Cannon, Blender, November 2005
How good is your life right now? "On a scale of one to ten? Erm, only a seven probably. Because I was thinking recently that if it all stopped today would I feel content and satisfied? And the answer is probably no, I wouldn't. In fact, I am going to downgrade it to a five, the more I think about it. It's not so much complaining about what I have, it's more about a frustration at not having done what else I can do. I genuinely think I have only scratched the surface. I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do it, I always think, 'Why are you telling me how successful you are?' I am always suspicious of those kinds of boasts. The people I admire most are never completely happy with what they have achieved, they are always restless for more." - Simon Cowell, British GQ October 2005
"I'm prepared to take a risk because that's what makes things happen. They've done the fucking math on it; you watch rats long enough, the ones that take risks live longer. And you need to push that. You might die trying, but if you don't, you might produce enough endorphins to live another five years." - Daniel Craig, British GQ, October 2005
"Humans are creatures of repetition. Therefore excellence is not an act. It's a habit."
- (shaken in by Gerald Pege)
"Men are respectable only as they respect."- unknown (shaken in by Lil Aynnah)
"You can watch Scarface a million times, but that still doesn't make you a Gangsta." - (shaken in by CTchick)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Bierce
"In my hands, I hold today....In my dreams, I hold tomorrow....In my faith, I hold forever."
- (shaken in by Degaulle)
"Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
- Winston Churchill (shaken in by Pablo)
"I don't think America has looked to its past, has accepted how it was born. I was asked by the Virginia Council of Heritage or whatever to go on camera for the celebration of the 400-year anniversary, to say, 'Congratulations, America.' I was like, 'Are you fucking kidding me? Do you know what story I'm in the middle of telling? The story of this culture that was damned, slaughtered, raped, pillaged of everything they fucking believed. I couldn't do it. There's too much blood. The cards aren't all on the table."
- Colin Farrell, Details, November 2005
What was the infamous Tunnel really like? "It was like straight hustling. You never knew if you were gonna win or lose. You knew you would make some money but you could lose cause there might be a riot. It was so ill - the illest club I ever did.. [The worst thugs] you kind of gotta say Brooklyn, Uptown cats want to party. They ain't messin up their gators. They want to stay fly, dress up and have fun. Brooklyn cats will just pour shit all over you and punch you in the face. They don't care. They might just shoot up the ceiling just to do it. I'll never forget Nas' boys shooting up the ceiling at the Country Club just cause." Yo Jess, they're from Queens. "I know, but it was still worth mentioning." - Jessica Rosenblum, Mass Appeal, Issue #36
"Next, Ma starts cutting up green peppers to add to the meat. "No green peppers!' Santana objects. She stops dicing and adds a pack of Lipton's Onion Soup Mix - the special ingredient that gives the burgers their pizzazz - and Sazon Goya to each bowl. 'If you don't know about Sazon, then you don't know about good tasting food. You better believe everything we eat, no matter who cooks it, there's some Sazon in there. Sazon! And of course, what would anything be without Adobo,' he sprinkles a little Goya Adobo in each bowl and begins grinding the turkey meat with his fingers. "Make sure every piece of meat got a little bit of everything on it. See, I know how to cook that other stuff, so this is nothing." - Santana's Murder Burgers Recipe, Juelz Sanata, Mass Appeal, Issue #36
"When I was doing "Nutmeg" I was rhyming with words that people probably never even... [people] said, 'it don't even make no sense.' I wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one could stop me cause I did it how I wanted. Cause yo, if I wanted to write something down that you wouldn't understand, yo, I'ma do it. I'm the first one that did it and made songs that made no sense to nobody. That's me. I made history for that one, nahmean?" - Ghostface, Mass Appeal, Issue# 36
".. You know what they're doing [in the African refugee camps]? They're fucking. They're making a lot of babies, and spreading a lot of diseases. That was one of the things we were talking about, too, just what you said. They were like, 'That's all we have, the only thing that feels good, that's it.' And then it just spirals into a bigger problem. The thing is that this is how they are going to spend their life. The kids will grow up this way, and that'll be their life experience on this planet: to live in a refugee camp and not do anything."
- Don Cheadle, Black Book, Fall 2005
