Quotes About Relevance

I don't know why this concept of what is hip became so important to me.

Though my music audience is cross-generational, like my television audience, my core demographic is people like myself. People who have grown up on hip-hop, but hip-hop doesn't necessarily speak to us any longer.

Hip-hop isn't dead by any means, but it's not something I define my black identity with.

I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Sometimes there's these things in life that hit at the right time, and it connects with people in the right way.

I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums.

The Holy Grail audience are young people and, at the end of the day, that's who gets courted.

The Democrats are going the way of Burma Shave and Crisco - products everyone loved and had in their homes. But they got old. They didn't have anything new to say about the product, and after awhile, they died.

Whether you like him or not, hip hop needs Drake.

I'm a firm believer in trying to make something that might not be considered fun by a lot of people fun. And hopefully, that makes the person have a positive association with it, and they want to come back.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

Wole Soyinka's 'Death and the King's Horseman' is a play I go back to and I read often.

Fame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot.

I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world.

A lot of designers become hot, attend every party, and then you don't hear about them again.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

Towards the end, there weren't that many people watching 'Glee.' So I don't know how many people would then watch a spinoff. We're off the air for a reason.

I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

Hey, I'm a human being also.

The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.