Quotes About Diversity

I recommend to any women just to find a gym that's got proper women there; lots of mums and lots of regular shaped women.

You watch 'Malcolm X,' and then Netflix recommends 'B.A.P.S.,' and you're like, 'What? Those movies have absolutely nothing to do with each other, but OK.' They don't recommend other historical biopics - it's 'B.A.P.S.' and 'Ghost Dad.'

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

I cannot reconcile monitoring certain people for no reason other than their religion with the freedom of religion we have here in America.

I understand that not everyone shares my faith and some find it difficult to reconcile with their own beliefs.

For the record, I am gay.

I feel blessed to even be able to put out an English album. Not too many Latin artists get the opportunity to come out and record another genre that's so different to Bachata.

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

I think most people's record collections are more interesting than radio generally gives them credit for. You're likely to be as interested in the Grateful Dead as Palestrina. It pisses me off how compartmentalised music is. I used to be in a punk band, you know?

After 'Mosaic,' I think a lot of people didn't know what my next record was going to be. And that's what I love. I just love doing music because I'm not going to follow the patterns and formulas of Music Row.

Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is.

People don't really buy records anymore, so record companies won't invest in bands like us. They want cookie-cutter acts.

It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.

Red House Painters were doing cover songs before our first record deal. I remember live shows where we did an AC/DC song; I think we did 'Send In The Clowns' by Judy Collins. We did 'The Star Spangled Banner,' which came out on our third record.

I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

I've started my own record label - Jeepney Music - and I want to put out my own stuff and also stuff by other Filipino artists.

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

I've recorded in Portuguese, too. I didn't set out to just sing ballads or romantic songs.

My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments.