When a child wants to be accepted, he'll do anything. And if it means you're getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that's what you'll do.
People like RZA and DJ Premier are really on the balcony to scope my musical theories. They also help me focus on making sure I make money, making sure I get the notoriety I should, just regular stuff that friends do when you're in the business. And to call them friends is amazing.
We can't recreate Woodstock, nor do we want to. We want to turn its notoriety into a place where we can shape controlled, scaled-down musical events of all sorts.
There's movies that I would've loved to be in that I just wasn't even considered for because they need a name. And that happens so frequently that, after a while - from a creative standpoint - you just want to be able to have that opportunity to work with the best people. That opportunity is available to you with a certain level of notoriety.
I can literally count on one hand how many slave stories have gotten notoriety over the past few years.
As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
I'm not shy, but I have a job to do. I don't need the notoriety.
I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.