A biography for CeeLo Greenhasn’t been written yet.
“My relationship with food is intimate. I don't eat and tell.”
“I want to burn as a beacon of possibility. I don't want nobody to misconstrue the commercial success I've had as anything other than an example of what black music is capable of. And what it's capable of is being more than just black. I'm not black or white anymore. I'm Cee Lo Green.”
“I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could!”
“The fact that you can love something that's lost is all of the incentive that you'll ever need to love again as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.”
“People have always questioned, Was I crazy? And I'm like, 'No, I'm not crazy. I'm just totally committed.'”
“I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.”
“I hate hateful people.”
“My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.”
“Gnarls Barkley is an alter ego and something like an out of body experience.”
“I'm not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Johnson on up.”
“I'm like Shrek. Shrek's a nice guy, but people keep alienating him, like they did with me in my younger life. I'm very loving and kind and generous - I'm a sweetheart!”
“I'm a normal guy at heart. But on stage, they don't pay me for normal.”
“I do like the ladies an awful lot. Surprisingly enough, it turns out ladies like me back; I'm a really good guy.”
“Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'”
“Music is a means of spreading the good word and spreading positivity and productivity. Those things speak to me.”
“Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.”
“Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.”
“Emotion is something that you don't simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we're just shells until we're possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions.”
“So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s!”
“All I'll say is... I'm at a point in life when nothing feels shocking to me. I need something to shock me! I'm almost ready to see a U.F.O.”