I’m not an actor that tends to care. I don’t ask ‘Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this a wide? What are you doing? If I look up and notice the camera I go ‘Oh, it’s a big one today, must be an IMAX.’ And that’s kinda it for me because it doesn’t affect what I’m doing.
I’m a DIY kinda guy.
‘Birdman’ has kinda… changed things. I’m not saying you won’t see traditionally made movies any more. But I’ve had meetings with directors, and they’ve said it makes them rethink everything. You can hate this movie, but you have to talk about it. It’s going to go down as one of the most interesting movies ever made.
It’s one thing to ask for a picture, but to just take a picture of me is kinda weird, guys.
Basically, when I did ‘Infinity’ in 1997, I had thoughts in my head that left me with a lot of questions. I’ve gone to certain personal limits with ‘Infinity’ that, at the end of it, I think, scared me. And I’ve made a lot of really kinda bad mistakes as a result of that.
I got a little tattoo on my face. I’ll never be able to work another real job, so I consider that to be kinda forcing myself to stick to music.
One think that you notice about anyone that gets up on stage is that they don’t really have a lot of self-awareness. It’s kind of a trait that performers don’t have because you just kinda just have to let go and do whatever you want to do on stage.
Sorry if i spit on ya’ll… I kinda have a problem with doing that.
I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there’s a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there’s kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.
When people refer to a cage fight as war, I think it’s kinda cute… A war, huh? You know what a war is? They, evidently, don’t. It’s not maybe their place to know what it is, but I do.
I have a string of competitiveness in me. It’s really strange ’cause it’s not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know.
I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia – a kinda lower-middle-class area.
One thing I’m working on is an episodic web series titled ‘One Warm Night.’ It’s a kinda crazy, quirky series, filled with a lot of misfits, oddballs… ninjas.
I kinda went back to that period between ’88 and ’94 where I felt like I was the most creative, without being hindered by powers that be. I was no longer going to try to hinder myself to what I thought was going to be on the radio.
Coming from the background that I come from, being a gold medalist, you see Ronda Rousey and Daniel Cormier doing so well. Yoel Romero. All these Olympians. It’s kinda hard to bet against them.
I don’t know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it’s just what I’ve, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I’ve kinda grown up with it.
I kinda got an old soul a little bit, I listen to a lot of Tupac before my games, Tupac and Biggie.
When I was in high school, my thing was to get as close as humanly possible to a girl and just make her have to kiss me! You do the hug that’s too close, where your mouth is close to hers and you kinda feel it out a little bit.
We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!
Most modern stuff I hear kinda sucks, someone should turn me onto something good, fast!
You kinda got to embrace expectations, but it’s not something I pay attention to.
Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.
When we’ve had images that perpetuate the negative stereotype of people of color, we’ve always had ‘The Cosby Show’ to hold up against that. And the fact that we no longer have that kinda leaves us not in a great place in terms of having the wide scope of the images of people of color.
I think it’s so easy for us to kind of just be robots and do day in and day out and not check in with ourselves, and not just kinda make sure we’re okay.
Here in California, a lot of people are just kinda rude, and they’re really impatient, especially on the freeways and stuff. And in Texas it’s not like that. Here, it’s kinda like a ‘dog eat dog’ world. But in Texas, it’s really friendly. And all my family is in Texas, so we would visit family more if we lived in Texas.
The cha-cha, right from the start… I knew it wasn’t my kinda thing.
As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make.
I used the name Diplo at one show when I was really young, and it just stuck. I never meant to keep it. But it’s kinda cool.
I am the princess of G.O.O.D. Music, the first lady of G.O.O.D. Music, the baby of G.O.O.D. Music. I’m kinda the spoiled brat right now. I could get whatever I want.
It’s a lot more comfortable, I must say. Ummm, I didn’t think I’d be playing with another band, I kinda thought I was through with that, but I make an exception because they’re nice people.
Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
Ever since I was a teenager, my style around girls has been kinda like ‘laid back in da cut.’
Sometimes when you belt, it kinda makes the song more dramatic than it really needs to be. There are certain songs that you hear, and you’re like, ‘Wow, he’s singing about his girlfriend, but he sounds kinda mad the way he’s yelling, ‘You’re so pretty!”
I got caught up in doing records for other artists. I just stayed behind the scenes, and time just kinda passed.
It all starts off on the field. In any sport, that’s how you catch people’s attention. From there, you kinda show your fans, your following, what kind of person you are and your personality. I let the field work do its work.
I taught myself computer. Then Macintosh came along, and it became a really bad addiction. If I wasn’t in show business, I’d have pocket protectors growing out of my chest. I do everything on it. It’s kinda sick.
We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.
I kinda always felt like I am out, for all intents and purposes. So I always came from the standpoint of, ‘Why does writing it in an article or saying it in an article make me gay?’ That doesn’t make me gay or not. I’m living my life. I’m not lying; I don’t hide it.
I feel like I’ve kinda danced around telling the truest story I can for many years of my life. I’ve been a little distracted by trying to be shocking or edgy or cool or whatever, and by letting go of that and telling the truest story I can – even if it’s about aliens and talking raccoons – it works.
I do have a little chip on my shoulder. I want to make a name for this state. I want to represent this state well so that’s kinda the chip on my shoulder in that regard.
Somebody the other day had a review, called me ‘America’s reprobate.’ And I don’t even know what that means, but I kinda like the way it sounds.
I can’t describe my sound. That’s something I don’t ever think about and I kinda don’t want to think about it.
It’s kinda like Hulk Hogan whereas any time Hogan walks into a room, he’s got that distinctive look. Everybody, whether you’re a wrestling fan or not, you know who he is. Chuck has that same thing. Whether you’re an MMA fan or not, he’ll walk into a room and everyone goes, ‘Oh, that’s Chuck Liddell.’
I think a lot of people settle with comfort. I’ve kinda pushed my whole life not to do that. There’s nothing wrong with settling, it’s definitely an easier life than the one I’ve chosen to live.
I was a fan of DMC but I was captivated by Run’s style, I wanted to be the man. As a kid, when somebody got that kinda influence over a child… you know how strong that can be.
I kinda like the idea of having an album that’s all me.
I’m a laid-back, shy kinda dude, and it wasn’t until when I was 19 that my life kind of changed.
You know, been on non-guaranteed deals, been a second round pick, been kinda, sorta viewed as a first round pick.
You know, as I’m progressing with my sound, I just realize when you got a simple sound with crazy percussion in the beats, it makes it. It kinda shapes my sound when it comes to what makes a Tay Keith beat.
I absolutely hate waxing and any kinda manscaping, although I love it when I’m cutting a man’s hair, and his eyebrows are really insane, and I get to trim them.
I’m not that kinda guy to hold a grudge.
People in tennis, they’ve been in a certain bubble for so long they don’t even know who they are, because obviously it’s just been tennis, tennis, tennis. And let it be just tennis, tennis, tennis. Be locked into that. But when tennis is done, then what? It’s kinda like: Let’s enjoy being great at the sport.
Some voices don’t blend. They just kinda rub against each other.
I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there’s a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.
I’m not gonna lie: I’m kinda the worst with a diet.
I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.
