I usually go to sleep with wet hair. When I wake up, it either has a really pretty wave, or I look like a poodle.
Look, I'm still a goateed guy with a bunch of tattoos, but Iβve got a poodle and not a pit bull. I don't kick boxes and I donβt scream at other people.
We've been tinkering with nature for tens of thousands of years - look at a poodle! So we've created all sorts of organisms and biological things that wouldn't be here were it not for us.
We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.
I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.
To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't.
I'm just very body-conscious. Sometimes I'm really proud that I don't look like other pop stars. But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'
I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.
When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn't look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn't know it in categories. It was the radio.
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
Ultimately, my goal is to inspire little brown girls that look like me, that are sitting on the porch wearing cornrows.
It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.
When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.
I know people are looking at what's happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.
If you look at my carpet photos, I'm doing the exact same pose all the way down the carpet - like, I literally shuffle in that pose.
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
I worry I look posh and fat. I can't do anything about posh - I'm accentless - but I've spent 20 years battling my weight.
