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I had this drive to do the martial arts. It wasn't necessarily mixed martial arts, but I always had the drive to be a martial artist from being a kid watching them on TV, but especially from the Army where I got my first real taste of martial arts.

I'm a fighter before I'm a mixed martial artist to be honest.

I want to make music and songs about things that real musicians and artist aren't able to make songs about - you wouldn't hear Justin Bieber making a song about homework, or, like, you wouldn't see someone make a song with their parents on the track.

I was only to see Mr. Chaplin once after 'The Kid.' A great artist, one of the greatest, but I'm afraid I don't think very much of him as a man. Running away from the country that gave him everything and denouncing the country in addition is something you simply can't make any allowances for.

No matter how incredible you are as a person, as an artist, if you have all these negative people around you, it's going to break you down.

I'm just trying to be healthy because I want to survive longer as an artist. I want to go longer, and in order to do that you need a good body and good health conditions.

I always say I write because I have questions, not because I have answers. It's true that you begin the conversation - that's the role of the artist. But it's not my job to tell us what to do next. I wish I had those tools.

In truth, a label is nothing more than a corporation, and it funds artists. Why couldn't another corporation fund an artist? And instead of having Capitol Records at the bottom of your CD, it says Hyundai. Why not?

The interesting thing about membership is that it's, by its nature, a very emotional transaction. It's a tie to an artist. It feels like voting with your dollars: I'm voting with my spending, voting for the creator.

I give you everything you want as an artist, for so long. Consistency. Wordplay. Wittiness. You can check the checklist. Only thing I don't check off on is album sales.

I think every artist, producer, believe's that it's going to happen at some point and time. You never want to just hear that you not gonna make it.

One of the catches with being a dope artist is saying the same exact thing a trillion different ways, and being able to get across somehow differently every time. The way to express maturity and growth and evolution is to do that throughout the music.

I'm Kiss the artist, and Jason the father. It's my job.

If I was strictly an artist, I'd have to learn to dance and get a shiny suit and stuff.

My wife is an artist, a painter. We are accustomed to being unemployed for long stretches of time. We know how to handle it.

Reggaeton is what opened the doors for me, and I'm always grateful for that. I'll do reggaeton for life, but I want to show that I'm an artist who can do everything.

My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.

As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.

No traveller ever sets out with so little idea of where he is going or how he is going to get there than an artist does. And no traveller ever gets to a more wonderful place.

I'm in show business, and I'm an entertainer, but I also see myself as an artist doing social and spiritual work.

If I were not a black artist but I was still singing, playing guitar, and singing ballads that are spiritual and cerebral, I'd be easier to market because people accept that from white female singer-songwriters faster.