Quotes About Change

Being vegan is something that has changed my life tremendously.

For the hip-hop community, for us to get ahead and go the vegan route or just reducing how much meat you eat, I think it's great for hip-hop, the youth, and the future, everybody.

I don't like the word 'vegan' on its own, and the reason I started Evolving Vegan, is because the people associated with that word can be very militant.

I did try being a vegan.

I've been vegan about, I think it's like three or four years now. So when I first went vegan, I remember saying it's a lot better and feeling like it. I've been vegan for so long, though, that I can't really remember how much of a difference it would make.

I was raised a vegan until I was a teenager.

I went to Brighton College, Shoreham College for one year, then to Spring Valley High School in Las Vegas for a couple of years.

I moved from Minnesota to Las Vegas when I was 13, so I spent my high school years there and did some things I'm not proud of.

I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas.

If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.

I don't live in L.A. I live in Las Vegas.

Vegas is a very fickle market that's about fun. It will change to what people want.

I actually get more conservative when I'm in Vegas.

Actually, I was born in Las Vegas. My parents moved to Utah when I was eight because, after 40 years in Vegas, they were tired of it. We ended up in Nephi, a really small town in Utah.

Staying in Vegas would've been too easy for me.

Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark, The Aladdin, The Frontier, The Hacienda, The Stardust - all were imploded.

The Old Vegas is gone. It's not that it's necessarily better or worse; it's just totally different.

I don't like watching shows where all of a sudden you're like, what happened? They shot the last season in Las Vegas?

I really didn't have a big relationship with Vegas until I was in my 20s, and now I probably come out four or five times a year. I love it.

When I first got here, Vegas still felt like a destination. Now it's become a real city.

It's about making small changes at first and adding foods to your diet before you take any away; start with one extra vegetable or fruit at every meal, and hey, presto, that's 21 portions a week.

If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu.

I've got a little vegetable patch in my garden. I moved from a city apartment into a house this year and needed something to do outside football.

When I was 18, I had a trial at Benfica, when Sven-Goran Eriksson was the manager. Then, at 21, I was working for a company loading vegetables onto trucks.