I called out to God, but the devil keeps answering.
I get to thinking about my life, and it sometimes makes me want to make it interesting.
Be free and express yourself. Do what comes naturally...
Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience – I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.
On a good day I think I’m handsome, on an average day I’m average. I’m a man’s man so I don’t necessarily know how cute we’re supposed to be.
Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.
Well, I’ve cleaned bathrooms in a warehouse. That was pretty terrible. But I can’t complain because I’m sure other people have done worse.
When it comes to the stage, I can’t help but be inspired by people like George Clinton, Elton John and Alice Cooper.
The fact that you can love something that you’ve lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.
Everybody’s the same color with the lights off.
Others tell like it is, while I tell it how I would like it to be.
If someone is passed out they’re not even WITH you consciously! so WITH implies consent.
Christina Aguilera, to me, has one of the greatest voices of our time and I got nothing but respect for her.
It’s a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it’s stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that were like ten minutes long, with different variations and chord progressions and changes.
I believe that I am God’s exact intention. It’s that balance of virtue and vice.
I don’t judge people. I don’t even judge people on ‘The Voice.’ I’m a coach. I’m there for constructive criticism and to aid and abet and discover new talent.
A great deal of it is personal. But the persona is, I guess, the out of body experience that takes place. Because I’m not conscious of what the outcome is going to be, I’m only conscious of my intentions, do you know what I’m saying? And even my intentions were simple initially.
Twitter is a form of free speech, and I’m all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts, can’t get on Twitter and say something outlandish or outrageous, then what is the whole point of Twitter at all?
My style is ambiguous and lucid.
I’m an artist, and I like the risk – I’m not in it for the sure things.
I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.