Quotes About Culture

Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.

It's funny; people in Europe seem more interested in decay in America than Americans.

There's so many funny things to say about being with Charlotte. I've worked on a few bits about it - not to be indiscreet but because the shock of culture and values is so interesting.

The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn't really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same.

Books do furnish a room.

Music goes further than any border, any language.

There was a time when I had spiky hair and I was doing Indian-influenced R&B fusion songs.

As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want that. My own hair that I have day to day is a fuzzy afro. And that's who I am.

Earnestness makes British people gag.

The fans like a certain thing in certain areas. In Florida, they like the gaga.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe.

It shouldn't be that people think the National Gallery is just for middle-class white people.

Asia is the founding land of competitive gaming.

Just like the rest of the world, I became a product of my environment, and this environment was gang culture.

I think 98% of gang members in Los Angeles would agree that being a gang is just like being part of a community.

I got into rap when I first heard Sugarhill Gang.

There was the 'Cosby Show' in America in the 1980s, which was a doctor in a beautiful Brownstone middle-class house. We just haven't created a role like that in the U.K.; it's always gangs and crime. We need to be brave.

When you are culture, you're forever young, like Snoop. When you're on that level, it's just contributing to the gangsta.

There are people there who live, work, and have lives. Not everybody who lives in Detroit is a gangsta.

I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.

Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.

I was always interested in the 1920s and the gangster world, in general.