I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

Rap was my drug.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

One of the things people don’t really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they’re celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

I respect Soulja Boy.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Without gambling, I would not exist.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

In New York I pretty much live in diners – I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

I’m very free-spirited.

My music is a luxury.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

The first wealth is health.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

This way of life is worth defending.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.