'Eagle vs Shark' was about keeping myself sane. I wanted to go back to my comedy roots with people I trusted and had worked with before and do something low-budget and more experimental.
However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
My roots are in everything from doo-wop and blues to the Four Freshman and the Beach Boys and jazz and electronica. But it was put together in a deceptively simple package.
My hair is an untidy bob. I am very dark, but I embellish the roots because I am white in one clump.
So in my personal opinion, I definitely feel like I'm a legendary emcee, and I also feel like we're a legendary brand, which is why I started rebranding ourselves years ago by saying 'The Legendary Roots Crew,' which is how we're introduced on 'The Tonight Show.'
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
What does it take to win in New Hampshire? Grass roots and financial resources.
I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.
We cannot have the fruits of the gospel without its roots.
Two years passed, and I had no second book to follow 'Roots.' Four years passed, six years. When a decade had passed without me having another book to follow 'Roots,' I was having serious private frustrations with myself.
'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.
One time, I went to school, and they asked us all to find out where our roots were. It's goin' around the class, and the kids were going, 'I'm Swedish-German' or 'I'm English-Irish.' They got to me and I said, 'Pure Kentuckian.'
Nobody roots for Goliath.
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.
I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.
I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
