Quotes About Culture

I'm not sure if being Chinese really helped, but I do think that if a non-Asian had written a book called 'Crazy Rich Asians,' they might not have been looked upon so kindly.

I love all kinds of Indian music, and Indian food as well. If the chance arises for me to play in India, I'm there.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.

I still like the King's Road. It is very alive; it is a hustle of things from different countries and so on. It is lovely.

I didn't invent the word 'hyphy' and I'm not trying to say I'm the king of hyphy.

I have a huge interest in ancient Egyptian times and the mummies and the kings and all that.

The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits.

It's hard for people to realize now, but my gosh, when I was in school, you could not name a group that was less cool than Kiss. Going in to school with a Kiss T-shirt, you were asking for ridicule. In '77, they were one of the biggest bands in the world, but by '80, there was a severe backlash.

We don't kiss in public. It's not done.

In Bangladesh, if you put a kiss in a film, it's political.

Everybody in Italy cooks. They have a better knowledge of the kitchen - that's the place around which the whole of Italian society revolves.

My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.

One really interesting thing for me was learning about kitchen etiquette, and the differences between an Indian kitchen and a French one. They're different in atmosphere, and also in how chefs maneuver within them.

House of Blues has soul right down to the chef in the kitchen.

People talk about Bollywood being very kitsch, and just songs and dances, and over the top and colorful.

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of the Germans is their love of kitsch.

Kitsch is very important to me.

There's so many German songs which are really popular in Germany that I find really bad. It can quickly border on kitsch pop.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

There's often a good, honest case to be made that a century-old company has not only a knack for growing and managing a P&L, but also, perhaps, a heart and soul.