Everlast

“I've been able to work with incredible people, including some of my idols.”

“I get to make music for a living and make money for my family, that's good enough for me.”

“I'm not a singer in the traditional sense of the word.”

“I'm still out for having fun and making good music - that's really all it's about for me.”

“I was born with a defective heart valve.”

“I'm fortunate enough to have a perspective, 'cause I've seen big money. So it's not like that's the lure of it - 'I want the cars, I want the women, I want the money.' Been there, done that.”

“When people first heard I was doing a band thing, they thought it would be an aggro rock-rap thing.”

“If you've been following my career for 20 years, then you know what I do.”

“My mom is very open minded, very progressive.”

“I mean, Will Smith has problems, too. Like, I love his Instagram, it's awesome. He's one of the best guys on Instagram as far as you want to have a smile and like laugh. But that's not all of his life, you know what I mean? I'm sure his struggle is different than ours at this point. He's rich, he's famous. But the struggle's there.”

“God doesn't want things hard on us. God wants things easy as possible. If you ask and you are sincere, God will bring it to you. He might throw some rocks on your path, to make you trip and stumble. But it's gonna come to you.”

“If you go by that little inscription on the Statue of Liberty, the purest idea of America is complete cultural chaos.”

“There was a time in the late '90s there where it was like every rapper had his rapper name and then his Italian Mafioso gangster name, and it was kind of like, 'What is that about?'”

“I could rap better than most of those kids in the heavy-metal bands, but it's been done so many times.”

“The guy's a brilliant marketing genius, but musically, yeah, I am speaking about Puffy. Not just him, there's a whole school of them and that's all they do. He just happens to be the master of it.”

“I'm always gonna be a hip-hop b-boy at heart.”

“I always tell people that if this gets unhappy for me again, I will quit and go work at Home Depot to earn money and have my music as my thing at night that I do to make me happy.”

“I've never made the same record twice, and as far as 'hooliganism' and 'shenanigans,' that sounds like young man's sports to me. I've been there, done that.”

“I'm not saying I have all the answers.”

“I'd be the last person to tell anybody to stay in their lane. If I had done that, I'd be on 'Where Are They Now?' The whole second half of my career, with singing, wouldn't have happened.”