I seem to be a long-term relationship kinda guy.
I’m kinda secretive, and I can’t even say secretive because of my son. He’s the type, like, he doesn’t let his friends know who his mom is or his stepdad. He doesn’t like me going to his school. If he gets into trouble at school, he’s, like, dying. He’s very low-key with it. He’s always been like that since he was born.
I trained for the drums for about two weeks, and then rocking out in front of an entire crowd was sort of like a dream come true. And now, Guitar Hero, I can’t do that anymore. It’s nothing like doing it on stage. I kinda wish I had a fake band, and we could go on tour.
You know when you become friends with someone, you don’t even remember? When you weren’t friends? You’re just kinda like, ‘When were we not friends? When I met you, weren’t we just already friends?’ I have the same thing with the Strokes guys.
Don’t go on American Idol, I think you’ll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it’s getting kinda scary, isn’t it?
In terms of brands, I generally try to stick with EDITION Hotels or Soho House. That way, I know what I’m getting myself into. Plus, the lobbies and bath soaps smell the same – if you’re into that kinda thing, which I am.
I hear a lot of artists become kinda self-referential, and a lot of people that tour a lot tend to write about the perils of being on the road later in their careers.
As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don’t support you any more.
I feel like Prince’s artistry inspired me as far as staying true to myself and my artistry and what is important to me in my life and applying, you know, all the things that I ever been through into my music, the same way he kinda did in ‘Purple Rain.’
I just try to take a positive approach with my social media, with my Instagram. I just want people who go to my page to kinda feel inspired.
You know, this league is all about adjustments, and the one thing you kinda notice when you’re playing every day is how teams make adjustments. Once you start having a little bit of success, they are going to make their adjustment.
I’m kinda mad that I had to wait 28 years to jump on a skateboard.
Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford’s apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.
I’m definitely a lot more reserved without the mask on. And with the mask on, all those inhibitions kinda go out the window. I can act like Keith Richards, I guess!
You’ve got the power to change people’s lives just by talking to them for a few minutes or by smiling at them. It makes you feel kinda weird, but it can also make you feel really good.
I think when you’re a kid coming out of college, you’re just kinda going with the flow. You don’t really understand what’s happening around you – you’re just out there playing basketball – but now that I’m older and I see where the league has come in my 15 years, it’s pretty cool to have witnessed it.
When I turned 19 I kinda realized that I needed to write my own songs instead of singing songs written by other people.
Me and Luke are fraternity brothers. Luke Bryan was already in Nashville when I got to college. He had come back to his old fraternity house, which was my new fraternity house. We met there and just kinda stayed in touch.
For whatever reason, I’m pretty good with pressure. I kinda just flip it over and think of it as positive.
All people go through moments that are tough, but looking at them through comedy is so fun. You can look at anything in life and say ‘Sure, this is crap, but it’s kinda funny.’
It’s very flattering, I guess, to be considered so popular at a young age. It’s kinda cool.
Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it’s all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.
I’m a Reuben kinda girl, but I’ll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
It’s kinda cool to have friends that just do good.
When we got with George, he didn’t care what was happening. He liked how crazy we were looking and dressing. I kinda liked being with George more so at the time, because George let us do what we wanted to do. But I needed both lessons.
I kinda don’t do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago.
It’s kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.
A guy came to the shop every day. A lot of guys put the foam like stuff that forms to you, kinda like the Indy car guys run. He fitted it up and it felt real good, so we’re going to try to run it.
Whenever I really want to, I can paint. It kinda just goes by my emotions and feelings at the time.
Probably every band – you get back to like, The Stones are kind of the tough guys, Beatles are kind of psychedelic, Led Zeppelin was kinda mystical, The Who are kind of mods. You know, you just go right through. Everyone’s kind of adopted their so-called persona or flavor if you will.
When you’re an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize what you’re really good at, what you’re kinda good at, what you’re okay at, and you start to compartmentalize. But if you know yourself and what you’re capable of, it’s just a matter of opportunity.
I’ve known that about myself, that I’ve had two sides: one that’s pretty tactical, down to earth, aware. There’s also a really spacey side. But I realized they’re kinda the same thing.
Everybody say I give them Pac vibes. I ain’t gonna lie: I ain’t really grow up on Pac, but I kinda see it – just off everything I do, though.
The Internet’s kinda in danger of getting heart disease pretty soon, I think. Arteries are getting clogged.
It’s kinda hard to date as an artist because you’re all over the place, and your significant other may seem jealous, depending on what they’re doing.
It is kinda strange when people know exactly where I’ve been because they saw it in the newspaper. But this is the culture we live in now, where people are interested in what you’re doing on holiday, so we have to just basically accept it.
I’m a fan of Otis Redding. I’ve sat around trying to copy some of his phrasing and learn from him, but it kinda falls short.
I enjoyed my life when I had nothing… and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.
My first reaction when I watched Les Miserables was, ‘Wow, my hair looks good!’ They put half a wig in, and I was always kinda worried it was gonna make my head look twice as big!
I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
When I’m creating a song, I’m thinking of a hip-hop beat playing on a live drum set – kinda like the Roots would do. I will put New Orleans music on top of that with some other rhythms.
Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.
As for the drag thing, we each do it in different ways and for different reasons. For me, it’s kinda about expressing a side of myself that’s always in there but usually doesn’t come out. Mostly because I’m too lazy to look that good every day.
The idea of going to New York for five days and kinda being paraded around by the NFL as they make money off your every step, and the whole purpose is just for publicity for me to stand there in a suit and go, ‘Look at me everybody!’… That sounds horrible.
I think that as a young lady, you start off not knowing what you want to do, and then you kinda arrive at yourself by the time you’re 17 or 18, hopefully. And that’s what I did.
There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin’ anything we could get our hands on.
EDM is, like… Event-Driven Marketing, I think, is the acronym there. It reminds me a lot of disco. That had some hang-time, like, 10, 15, 17 years tops… Not too many people are forward-thinking about electronic music. They’re just kinda like, ‘Now, now, now – do it, do it.’
A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.
I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn’t mean that I’m less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It’s kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.
We’ve never played at this place before. This place is big, and I’m kinda nervous, so we’re going to make it feel small by pretending we’re in a… bedroom. We’ll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!
Yeah, well I’ve had a record deal for a long time so I’m kinda used to the cameras and the people, I’m used to dealing with peoples’ opinions.
We kinda were a radio-rock band. We were still pretty technical, but I think the prog people hated us because we didn’t do a bunch of weird time signatures… which are cool at times, but I’m more interested in progressive harmony.
It must be horrible having people scared to talk to you. But I think it’s kinda cool that I don’t really know anyone in that way.
