Damian Lillard Quotes

If I could go back, I think I would be a rock star instead of an actor, man.

I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.

I had known that I'd wanted to be an actor from a very early age, but I had always known that I wanted to have a dual career. I wanted to be an actor, and I also at that time wanted to be a rock star.

I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.

Eventually I'm going to be too old to be on camera, and I've been doing stand-up a long time.

Why isn't there any 50-year-old MCs killing it? I'm 46. Am I the only one? I can't wait to get to 50. I'm going to let everybody know it! I'm going to wear a shirt that says 'I'm 50.'

I can have a career right into my old age, creating music in some way. It seems like a lovely way to go through life.

There are a lot of options when it comes between music and acting. For me, because I'm so passionate about my music career, you have to be extremely passionate when you have opportunities like films and real money actually coming to you compared to with music.

Who else is putting seven figures down for unreleased rap tracks?

It was a weird stage of my life, to leave Simon & Garfunkel at the height of our success and become a math teacher. I would talk them through a math problem and ask if anyone had any questions, and they would say, 'What were the Beatles like?'

I used to have visions of being a star all the time, but I never knew I wanted to be a rapper.

I want to play until I'm 38.

I've been doing this since 'So Icy' back in 2005.

If you were to ask me, I think my jersey will be hanging in the rafters when I retire in Sacramento.

I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.

Anybody wherever I've ever been in my life, one thing they can always say good or bad, I was always doing music and I always wanted to be a rapper.

It is never easy for a professional cricketer, who has represented his country for 17 years, to forget the past and adopt a new lifestyle.

I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don't know that I'll be touring six months out of the year in a rock band when I'm 60.

Those people are corny. You think I'm rolling to a club with Lyor Cohen or John Meneilly?

I'll be, like, the oldest rapper alive.

I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.

Musically, what happened was this: I retired twice. I retired after The Black Crowes, and I retired after Brand New Immortals. Then, we started buying real estate, which really took up my time. I was busy. I was still teaching yoga, but I was mostly busy running business, and I was fine. I was happy.

Rap is no longer a pastime; this is a worldwide profession.

I've been around so long that I've seen rappers make it and plummet.

As a sports person, you are always aware that at some point your career is coming to an end and you have to do something else. I always knew it had to end one day, and I was very determined to make sure I wasn't going to be known as an ex-racing driver.