Quotes About Passion

I've always loved Nike shoes, and I'm in a position where I like to collect them now, especially the limited-edition Jordan and Air Max pairs. My house is full of special releases.

I set out and I said I wanted to just release music, and I don't care how many people heard it at first. And I just wanted to put records out. I knew that.

'Heavy Rain' was my baby, my reason to live, and my oxygen for four years. And seeing the successful release of the game has been the most extraordinary reward I could have dreamt of, after years of working in the dark.

I want to release music that I like and feel comfortable with.

I want people to really care when I release an album.

I write so much and I release so much music that I think I'm less precious about that stuff than a lot of people.

For me, I feed off everything, from bad politics to religion to relationships - I mean, just life in general. And, yeah, I'm not necessarily happy with the state of things. And I think that I get to use music as a release.

I am such a fiery woman and I am a real passionate woman and I get so much stuff built up inside of me that I can release all that on stage, and I kind of counterbalance it with the normal Maria that I am because with the real calming, natural kind of earthy spirit stuff and it kind of balances me out so I don't go too crazy.

There is something about being on stage that's a release for me. It gets my mental energy out.

I wanted to do 'Kanchana' in Hindi but many heroes I approached were hesitant to act with the saree and also demanded that the climax song be removed completely. I wrote the script with such passion that I could not agree for any compromise.

On hindsight, I feel I should have given more time to sports. But I really got bitten by the acting bug.

There's something sexy about a lip with a hint of red in it.

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.

I am a hip-hop fanatic, and rock fanatic.

I can't turn hip-hop off, just like I can't turn comic books off. It blends into everything for me.

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn't going to be the long term.

At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.

That's the reason why I'm making albums. That's the reason why I love hip-hop: It's a challenge every time.

I am hip-hop!

I'm a hip-hop fan.

I love hip-hop, and everybody knows that.

I'm a film composer, but I'm a hip-hop guy.

As hip-hop artists, you have to take the music seriously, not just as a way to get rich.