Athletes can not look the same and be great in their individual sport. The example I like to use is Gabby Douglas. She could not flip in the air if she was built like me, but then Gabby Douglas couldn't throw the shot put. I was built like this because I was made to throw the shot put.
Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
I really love Grimes, Niki & the Dove, stuff like that.
I listened to Kanye West and also dove deep into bands like Radiohead, Portishead, and Bon Iver.
I didn't start off as a bass player, and Guns was the first band I really, like, 'Oh, I'm gonna be a bass player. This is what I'm gonna do.' And I really dove into it head first.
The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.
'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.
I tried to make a 'When Doves Cry' in a rap version. I used a lot of instruments and I broke it down like I thought Prince would do, and that's the song I sent to Big Boi.
People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'
I know there are people who are praying for my downfall, but they're going to be like, 'Wow, Xan's actually an artist.'
The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.
To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.
The first six years of a child's life, it is like a tape recorder is on. Everything it sees, smells, touches, experiences in any way, whatever it hears, is being downloaded into the brain before the consciousness of the child is even made apparent.
I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantly downloading music to iTunes.
It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs.
I'm just like anybody. I have my ups and downs.
If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and go right onto the course. I'll do that five days in a row.
I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.
I'm a very creative person in general. I like to create stuff in my downtime off the court.
