Quotes About Misunderstanding

Do people talk about Kenny Florian coming from a wealthy family and all this? I don't think they do. People say these things about me when they don't even know me.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

People seem to think I got where I am because of the clothes that I wear.

I was a kid who got picked on in school, and now the guys beating up those kids were wearing red caps and using my music to fuel that aggression. But if they listen to the lyrics, the aggression is targeted at them.

They didn't know what to do with rap music. You walk into Epic, and they're wearing straight-leg khakis with creases, Prada shoes with tassels. They couldn't comprehend where I was coming from.

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

I did not get into a fistfight with my father at my sister's wedding. My sister didn't have a wedding.

My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.

I was as staunch a Rangers supporter as any wee boy could be without being bigoted. We did a lot of stupid things. We sang the songs, but with no real feeling, and didn't have a clue what we were singing about.

Ambien is one of the most prescribed pills in America. A lot of people take it every night or several times a week or several times a month in order to help them sleep. I'm just not one of those people. That's the perception of me. But that's not the reality.

They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

It annoys me when I phone a hotel receptionist in my own country, and they don't understand what I am saying because they don't speak English. I think that's wrong. It's nothing to do with being politically correct or incorrect; it's just not right.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Perhaps it's time to stop analyzing Sarah Palin as a politician. Maybe, in her own muddled way, she is at last owning up to the fact that she has been miscast. You don't need politics anymore once you've discovered that the alchemy of celebrity has turned you into a 24-carat phenomenon.

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

I feel that Marco Polo has really been misrepresented - has never really gotten his due.

I do sarcasm really poorly.

I never minded being thought of as a pop star. People have always thought I wanted to be seen as a serious musician, but I didn't, I just wanted people to know that I was absolutely serious about pop music.

Don Cornelius did not want to see how I really danced - I was doing hip-hop, and it was foreign to people out in California. They only knew about popping and locking, so they were not keen on hip-hop dancing.

I don't know what a credit bubble means. I don't even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don't think they have any meaning.

I don't know if Rush Limbaugh knows the difference between a screen porch and a screen play.

People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.