Quotes About Culture

Puff Daddy is a great party thrower. He goes down in the history books.

Growing up I was listening to Puff and Biggie.

I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so that people weren't intimidated.

Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.

We have our roots in country, and that's our foundation, but we pull from a lot.

If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's always seen as meant to pull in the male gaze.

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it definitely takes a different part of my brain to pull it off, but it's always nice and fun.

The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.

We want to pull out songs from the American song book, and we want to make them palatable for a modern audience.

In the middle of Mississippi, so many kinds of music came, but it was Nashville and country music that pulled my heart.

I can't get enough of 'Pulp Fiction.' I just love it; it still holds up. And it didn't win Best Picture, by the way. Didn't win.

People come to L.A. and they expect to see a ghetto like the projects, but that's not the way it's set up. Inglewood, in particular, is the furthest thing from a ghetto. It's a middle-class community, but it's gotten a bad rap over the years... because of 'Grand Canyon' and 'Pulp Fiction' and other films.

E! needs to be and really wants to be the pulse of popular culture.

Back in the day, Motown was on the pulse of young America. It wasn't about just dope contemporary. It was pop, it was R&B, it was all of that.

I've never been able to keep my finger on the pulse of fashion.

A Portuguese is not going to punch you for no reason.

In China, they treated me really well, they like me a lot. The first few times they laughed when I took my shirt off, but when they saw me throw my punches and saw my opponent on the floor, they came over to my side and clapped.

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

When I joined the band, I hadn't been introduced to a lot of these bands on the scene - no emo bands or punk bands. The only band I knew was My Chemical Romance.

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

If it was the '70s, I'd be a punk artist. I was just born into hip-hop.

I cooked, which was pretty un-Australian. And I didn't really like Australian music... I preferred the New Romantics and punk and stuff like that.

I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.