lifestyle quotes

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

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.

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

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.

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.

Rap was my drug.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

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

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.

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.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

The first wealth is health.

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.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

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.

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

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

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

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

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

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

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

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

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

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?

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

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.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

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

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

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.

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

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

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

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

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

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

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.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

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.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

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.

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

I think I should learn French and be a better cook – basic, really good life stuff.

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.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

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.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

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.

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.