Quotes About Culture

Backstage, I do my own thing and have my own spots in the locker room, so environmentally, it's not very different for me. But the backstage environments are vastly different, but that is mainly because of the personalities.

In general, in my life, one of the coolest things that I've been able to do is to go to different places and meet different people and see how they view the world and to learn what their music is and what their language is, and the food they eat and everything. That idea of the beauty of the vastness of the world has just been my life.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I'd much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That's Rome to me.

I've been to the Vatican more than anyplace else outside this country in the world. I am mesmerized by it.

Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.

Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.

I'm a fan of old vaudeville theaters.

Indeed, the night sky is the part of our environment that's been common to all cultures throughout human history. All have gazed up at the 'vault of heaven' and interpreted it in their own way.

I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and maybe even coffee on the list of inalienable American rights.

If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland.

I'm a vegan and London's great for vegans.

I hate Disneyland. It primes our kids for Las Vegas.

You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can't take the Vegas out of the girl.

I like going to the cinema or theatre, followed by a meal and cocktails. I'm typically home by midnight; I used to be a raver but not now, unless I'm on the boys' trips to Vegas, Dubai or Miami.

The pride I feel in representing my people, no matter where I am, is never going to diminish. I could be in Hong Kong, Singapore, Egypt or even Las Vegas, I'll always be representing my people.

I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.

I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.

Las Vegas, New Mexico has had a lot of great movies shot there.

I've always loved it in Las Vegas, and it is the only city in the world that brings so many different talented people from so many places.

I look at Las Vegas, and I see the absolute best of what we are as Americans, and I see the absolute worst, in the same city.

I've always thought of Las Vegas as Los Angeles on its day off. There's not any hierarchy of taste, and that's what L.A. always was to me: It's not really a town of culture - it's a town of entertainment.

Las Vegas is amazing because of the clientele you have here. People come from all over the world; it really is a melting pot.

I love playing in Vegas because you've got people from all over the world, and you're already accepted. It's kind of a great mixture of people that come out to the shows, and that makes it fun.