I’m from a family of 20, so I’m one of the oldest guys, I grew up a lot having my brothers and sisters walk with me to school when I had to be the guy to watch them and all these things, so I kinda learned how to develop those leadership skills at a very early age.
You’re in a bathing suit pretty much all year round working for Victoria’s Secret. There’s so many shoots, and we’re always in lingerie, so you kinda always have to be prepared and ready.
Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don’t really care what’s playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it’s easy to drive to or it’s easy to sing along to or whatever.
Even though we’re not the most punk rock band, the way we’ve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.
My mom’s a collector and my dad is also into jewelry. When I was young, my dad would buy my mom loose stones and she would design them and do the settings and everything. So I kinda grew up with that kind of love for anything sparkly.
The beautiful thing about it is that ‘Despacito’ is not really an English crossover. It was just another song that the world made a crossover. I didn’t really push it; it just kinda went there.
I’ve built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it’s kinda cool. Like I’ve created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff.
I want to keep the same kinda vibe where we’ve got the dance element and hip-hop. I’m going to be singing a lot more, and I want to write more heartfelt songs.
Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.
I always thought of myself as a big-dog kinda guy.
You don’t want to be defined by one thing. But at the same point… When you are the first in something, that’s gonna kinda be the title that sticks. And after Sochi, I was, like, the dog guy. Now I’m the gay guy, and it’s fine by me.
We always do kinda like the bare bones representation or variation of the voice and drums, which is what we feel is the foundation or backbone of rapping and hip hop.
In the early ’90s, Too Short was like one of the first dudes who kinda discovered Lil Jon. So I always used to see him at concerts and we’d pow wow – a good dude, you know?
Ohio means a lot to me. Kinda like a second home, just the memories I have here and the fans I made while at Ohio State with the things that I accomplished at that great university.
I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.
It doesn’t matter where I’m at – if I’m somewhere sitting still for more than an hour, rhymes start popping in my head… It’s just kinda instilled in me.
I never really planned on being a rapper, I just kinda did it and then people started liking it.
I was never really a DJ… I just kinda figured it all out at once as I started to tour. I was making music and producing and I just had to start to DJ as I got more into touring.
I’m interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee’s movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his movies when he used to scramble and fight more for them.
It’s nice having your work recognized but having people follow you around is kinda weird.
Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.
I kinda liked ol’ Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master’s just in case. I thought, if I ever needed it, I’d have the sheepskin to show people no matter how dumb I looked, actually I was about half intelligent. I got the degree to let ’em know I wasn’t as dumb as I acted.
I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it’s kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that’s it.
Sometimes I wonder why I’m not working at McDonald’s and how come I have the life I have. I don’t know. But I’m happy that I have these choices. That’s kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.
I’m kinda famous for my barbecues – I’m always hosting parties.
People try to tell me like that, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t be proud,’ or, ‘You’re not this,’ or, ‘You aren’t that,’ or whatever the hell. I’m just kinda here to say, like, who is anybody else to tell me who I am or what I’ve gone through or what I haven’t gone through?
I’d always enjoyed acting at high school, and I was all lined up to do an honours degree course in biology at a Canadian university, and at the eleventh hour the drama teacher I had said, ‘You know, you’ll get a lot more girls if you go into acting,’ and that kinda sold it.
I have always wanted to open up a brewery slash goat farm. Brew some beer, make some goat cheese, but that’s kinda dreamy.
I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.
My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.
I kinda washed my hands of him. I’m not worried about Mike Jones. I don’t wish no bad on him and I don’t hate him, but I’ve got to move in my own direction.
I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn’t think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.
I kinda grew up in different places. I was just from everywhere.
Every time we go to Sacramento, I go see De’Aaron Fox. Every time he comes to Miami, he comes to the crib. We just kinda kick it and really think about it. ‘We are in the NBA right now. This is real.’ And we cherish those moments because you never know when your time is up on this earth.
I’m still kinda old-school. We’re twittering, and we’re all twitterers. And we write tweets. The only thing I don’t love is twits.
It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It’s kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.
My sister was always supportive. When I first moved to L.A., she was like ‘I know you can do it!’ But my parents, in the beginning, not so much. They were kinda like, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it.’ But when I actually started booking things, my dad was like, ‘Oh, I knew it all along.’
I get kinda self-conscious. I don’t want to know about my eyebrows. I’m born with them.
I grew up such a horror fan, it’s kinda cool being named ‘Scream Queen.’ I like that.
My father Rodger is your typical ‘funny without knowing it’ kinda guy. When he says something that creates shock or joy in a room, I love watching his confused face as he tries to work out what it is he did.
I never wanted to just glamorize the playa lifestyle and not touch on the down side. I wanted everyone who’s in a desperate situation to know that, if they wanna choose that kinda lifestyle, they gotta be aware of everything that comes with it! It’s not just about the cars, the ladies and the money.
I try not to write two songs about the same thing, although, on occasion, it happens, so I guess it kinda helps to change stuff up.
Yeah, I kinda still get nervous sometimes now.
I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance – where there’s mystery and intrigue.
You see a lot of us lingering around. We’ll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.
When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
When writing songs, especially if they’re kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there’s a part that doesn’t want yourself to be exposed.
Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, ‘If you put that in a movie, you wouldn’t believe it.’ Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people’s actual lives defy credibility. People’s lives are messy, humans are messy, and they’re flawed.
It just seems like it would be kinda cool to be able to actually teach kids important stuff.
Once I started writing, I realized just how much I really enjoyed it. I was kinda good at it, so I kept at it.
Fester has a lot going for him. He’s 120 volt AC and DC, and he’s great with dynamite. His only trouble is that he’s one of the great losers of our time. He would make a great spy, but he kinda stands out in a crowd.
Music’s something that I really wasn’t pushed into, it was something I just kinda chose, I just kept pushing myself, and it was all down to me.
‘Sally’ is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don’t really consciously say, ‘This is what I’ve been going through in my life, and I’m gonna put this into words.’ It’s just a song that I kinda went in and did. Then, listening back to it, I realized, ‘I’m talking to myself.’
