My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.
I don't really focus on these things - on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field - stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.
The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
I shaved my head a week or two before senior year. People used to ask me why, and the main reason is that having hair felt terrible.
To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people.
I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.
Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context.
Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'
Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.
The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed.
And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.
The best part of my life is I've been hired to work for the people of the state of Maine, and I'm very humble and very proud.
Maine's welfare program is cannibalizing the rest of state government. To all you able-bodied people out there: Get off the couch and get yourself a job.
I've always driven big SUVs. I'm from Maine, and there's a point to driving a big SUV in Maine. I don't really need a 4WD in L.A., but on the 405, people are crazy, and you need a tank. I like the visibility factor.
My first album was mainly dealing with street issues, and it was 'coded': it was called 'Reasonable Doubt.' So the things I was talking about... I was talking about in slang, and it was something that people in the music business was not really privy to. They didn't understand totally what I was saying or what I was talking about.
It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.
What we've seen is an attempt by mainstream politics and politicians to co-opt movements that galvanize people in order for them to move closer to their own goals and objectives. We don't think that playing a corrupt game is going to bring change and make black lives matter.
There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.
I don't think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some reason, there's an idea that only white people are relatable. I don't think it's necessarily racist. But it's odd, because the people who watch the most television are black women, so we should be represented in more ways.
