Quotes About Evolution

I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.

I think hip hop is dead. It's all pop now. If you call it hip hop, then you need to stop. Hip hop was a movement. Hip hop was a culture. Hip hop was a way of life. It's all commercial now.

Being born in the adolescent years of hip hop helped us learn about flux. And when you're in an industry that is constantly growing, changing, maturing... you get a chance to try different things out and a chance to fail.

We listen to a lot of hip hop. They're the ones that are trailblazing. It used to be rock, but it's really turned to hip hop, and they're doing really unique and cool things, and we wanted to do that, too.

Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what I'm doing and change it again. If the music doesn't move, then it's dead.

Critics who complain that we don't do anything new will hopefully be happy with 'Oopiri.'

Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.

The combination of a workable basic formula and the capacity to improve over time is what one hopes for in any aspect of society: business, government, the non-profit sector.

What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.

Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same.

What I'm hoping is that people in my age group will grow up with me and keep listening.

It's about continuing to develop as a player and continuing to get better and that's something that I'm hoping to do every single year.

In the 1960s and into the '70s, everyone in their own way was trying to open up the musical horizon. There shouldn't be a wall that you're going toward and bouncing off.

I thought I was horrible and really mean on 'Total Divas.'

At first, I was a pretty horrific singer, and then I got a little better.

I actually do like scary movies. I used to hate scary movies. You know, when I was young, I saw 'The Changeling,' with George C. Scott, which I think is the scariest movie ever made. After I saw that, I swore I would never see a horror film again. Then I started making them.

I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

Some actors want to keep riding the horse that made them famous, but it's not interesting to me. I like to turn an archetype on its head.

I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by.

When I did 'Horses,' I never expected to make another album.

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

Actually, acting and hosting shows just happened on the way, and I will do it 'til it lasts and then concentrate on writing.