Quotes About Culture

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

In the U.K. and Ireland, crowd-work is a big thing. It shows you how funny someone would be if you met them off-stage. Americans don't care if you're funny off-stage. They want to see the writing; they want to see the work you did.

We usually go to metal and rock festivals, and Glastonbury is not like that.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.

Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.

Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.

Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

When heavy metal was really big in the '80s, it was huge, and then it kind of waned down and kind of came back.

People get into metal and they don't drift away from it. They might have families and move away a little, but they certainly don't forget about it.

Heavy metal these days is what I call wimpy.

I grew up an '80s metal guy.

I don't know about all this 'speed metal' and everything... It's all metal to me.

Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.

My first concert was Method Man and Redman because they came down to Kosovo.

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.

There is no book-learning culture in Cambodia. People do not read. The children do not read in school. Educators must come up with a policy that meets the great need for knowledge: using modern audiovisual methods that the young can connect with.

I'm not familiar with the metric system.

Oh, I live in London. So, whether I like it or not, I am a member of the metropolitan elite. If I were anywhere else in the country, I'd hate me.

I'm from the Midlands. I lived in London for 50 years, but I'm not sure that I think of myself as a Londoner. I can see that we're all metropolitan, whether we are Londoners or not.

I will eat anything Mexican - a sombrero, hacienda... anything. They've perfected the combo of bread items and the grill.

When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part.

Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where it was financed or cast.

I am Mexican, and people tend to forget that.