Charlamagne tha God Quotes

Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.

I'm at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

I feel a lot older than I am but at the same time I don't want to play too old on T.V. I still want to be young. I still want to be 20 and enjoy this period of my life where I still have that flexibility.

I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.

Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.

I think I'll be flavor of the month when I'm in my fifties.

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.

Don't get me wrong, I'm going to play the young role as long as I can because once that ship has sailed, there's no getting back on it.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

Lil' Kim is my stage name and a character I use when I'm out working my livelihood.

I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

I'm too old to be a yuppie.

I think the problem with people, as they start to mature, they say, 'Rap is a young man's game,' and they keep trying to make young songs. But you don't know the slang - it changes every day, and you're just visiting. So you're trying to be something you're not, and the audience doesn't buy into that.

Tony Bennett and me are all the same... and he's still singing. I don't know what else to do.

Who wants to be a 40-year-old rock and roller? You cannot live in the past.

Fashion is a huge part of music and of who you are. It really sets the mood for a show, and it's fun to play around with it. You can get really creative in photo shoots as well. You know, just having fun with it.

We used to say, 'I don't wanna be jumping around and going crazy when I'm thirty,' you know? Even Mick Jagger said, 'Well, I can't see myself at forty jumping around.' Well, here we are, you know?

Tina Snow' was more turnt up than anything I ever dropped, it's my alter ego.

Y'know, it's funny: I didn't think I'd be playing 'Hold The Line' at 60 years old. I was 19 when I first played that.

Roxy Music' and 'For Your Pleasure,' those exercises in learning and unlearning of accent and manners, are Pop's equivalent of 'The Talented Mr Ripley.' The clothes, the bearing and the voice are faked, but not yet perfectly.

There is no fashion for the old.

Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.