CeeLo Green
CeeLo Green
Thomas DeCarlo Callaway, better known by his stage name CeeLo Green, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and businessman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth30 May 1974
CountryUnited States of America
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I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.
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I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.
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My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time.
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I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.
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There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.
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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.
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Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?
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People have always questioned, Was I crazy? And I'm like, 'No, I'm not crazy. I'm just totally committed.'
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Well, I've cleaned bathrooms in a warehouse. That was pretty terrible. But I can't complain because I'm sure other people have done worse.
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I was one of those kids, inner-city youth and finding my way. I made it. I made a success out of myself, surprisingly.
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I think I'm needed - as an artist, as an individual, as an entity, an enigma, an exhibitionist, an entertainer - as an alternative.
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I think I wanted to be a punk-rocker before I wanted to be anything else. I remember wanting a mohawk, and I wanted to cut the sleeves off of my jean jacket because I used to want to be Dirty Dan from Sha-Na-Na. This is before hip-hop was even around. I had the skinny piano tie. I had it, man.
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To lose my mother just as I'm right on the brink of crossing that threshold over into a career, it was pretty compelling. My entire career is my mother's work, for me.
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I am a rare occasion. I think if everyone had known it was going be me who succeeded, they would have supported me a lot more. They would have known what to do with me a lot earlier. They just didn't know.