If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like 'Shrek' or 'The Simpsons,' 'Robin Hood' manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.
We're trying to plug a void and bring what's been missing back to hip-hop.
Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.
It's about polarization. You're trying to stir up something in your audience.
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
Britain First has deeply ignoble form on trying to 'hijack' the poppy to increase their popularity and donations.
I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video.
I don't have an image that I'm trying to, like, portray. I'm just being me.
It's not me trying to act or pose in a certain way. It's a lifestyle - like a suaveness or a swag, per se.
Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better.
I'm out here trying to promote positivity on a global scale.
When I came out with 'Posse on Broadway,' I decided, enough with trying to imitate New York, enough with trying to imitate L.A., let's just be Seattle. And rock, grunge, followed right after 'Posse on Broadway' and Seattle just exploded.
You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing.
We're trying to do for the national security apparatus what FedEx did for the postal service.
I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is.
It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it.
Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
I thought it was a prank. There is no way six different major labels trying to reach out to me. But it was actually happening.
I'm trying to break down preconceptions about what pop music is.
