Quotes About Comparison

The best bounce rapper ain't gonna be able to compete with Jay-Z, not on a major scale.

There's no other rapper that will drop a better album than me. No one.

Rakim is a great rapper, but, you know, he's not a battle rapper.

People compare me to Kendrick. I've seen comparisons with Jay-Z, with Nas, with Chance The Rapper. I get a lot of Eminem comparisons.

You know how there's all these rappers like Mike D and King T and Ice T and Cool C or something like that? Well, on Mayberry, on 'Andy Griffith,' they had Aunt B.

There are so many other rappers that's way better than me. I'm in agreement with that.

It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and you think, 'Gosh, that rarely happens with the boys.' I'm sure people don't say to Eddie Redmayne, 'How do you feel about Andrew Garfield?'

All I'm saying is that I rarely find myself pointing to Sean Penn's love life thinking, 'I want to be like that.'

Rick Ross is bigger to me than Dizzee Rascal. My music is more gangsta rap than anything English.

It's scary when you look at how kids age, because you think, 'Am I aging at that rate, too?'

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

I rate the EPL a bit higher than the Bundesliga.

You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.'

I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.

There aren't really any 'American' grandmasters that are higher rated than me.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.

If a rating is bad in another sport, do you see a writer say, 'This sport's over?' No.

Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

I wouldn't say I play better for England, but my goals-per-game ratio is definitely better.

If you compare TV and films, the success ratio of television is higher than films.

I don't consider myself a food person. I'm no Bobby Flay. I'm no Emeril or Paula Deen, and I'm certainly not Rachael Ray.