I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.
If you want to reach a large audience, appeal to idiots.
All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
Any judicial nominee who has said that the Constitution means what it says, not what judges would like it to mean, is going to be called an 'extremist.' That person will be said to be 'out of the mainstream.' But the mainstream is itself the problem.
If I've got a script, you think I'll go to Hollywood to get money? I was bored with the people around me, so I just created my own movie, my own character. I'm the story of my own movie, and you know what? My movie is going to be better.
I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.
That's just the way the world's going - everything has to be so instantly commercial that it kills anything that's a little bit underground instantly.
A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.
I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible.
Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.
Donald Trump's fought, quite frankly, the entire mainstream media, who is always, you know, who's always counted him out, never thought he could do this, who's always put him down.
I would always rather shoot for something unique and fail than do a script because I feel like they're hitting all the right mainstream beats.
Ninety percent of the general public aren't gangstas, so all of the rappers aren't going to be gangstas.
I'm not from a conventional world, innit? So the fact that I'm getting a chance to express my world in society and TV is epic.
I'm not one of those acts where it's, like, this mainstream person, where the average white kid at Harvard University is like, 'It's educational tonight. Let's all go out there and spend Dad's money.'
When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.
Earlier in our country, rapping was not considered as a proper art form, as it is not a song. But now, incorporation of rap in Bollywood songs, is giving rappers a chance to show their talent and it is coming to the mainstream.
We don't go around the world counting ticket and record sales, nor do we glue our ears to the radio to hear what's trendy at the moment - we're not that type of band.
I've never sought to be on an A-list. I've done my own thing and my own thing has thankfully now brought me an audience.
The fact is, when you hear the Republican candidates on immigration, when you see them and hear them talk about contraception, mammograms, abortion, and not the economy, it's clear to me they're moving farther and farther away from the mainstream.
I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community.
You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.
I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.
