I’m not a nerd, obviously. Do I look like one? I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

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.

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

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

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 you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

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

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

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.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

I don’t have a need for speed. I’m not that guy.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

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

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

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 like to take it easy.

Rap was my drug.

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.

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

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

I became a beach bum.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

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

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

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

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

I don’t care about money.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

I’ve always been a little homemaker.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Music is really driving my whole life.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

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.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.