Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Music became less understandable in the wake of the new MTV era. You weren't supposed to be anything other than a pop star, to not go deeper than that. It was really strange. It was suffocating, image-wise. What you could talk about in a song changed; if you were misunderstood, you were really misunderstood - taken literally.
Me and my brother, as anybody who's a twin will tell you... it's a competitive relationship. Ours is really competitive.
I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.
I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.
Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?
Sometimes I feel like I represent for the misunderstood.
It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.
It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.
There's a touch of the gambler in anybody really competitive and somebody that's willing to concede that to succeed, sometimes you need to cut corners and to make bold choices.
Scientology is probably one of the most misunderstood things, and it's sad that it's so misunderstood.
It's okay to be misunderstood - as long as you're not misunderstood by your consumers.
Just feeling misunderstood sometimes, I guess, has been my biggest downfall.
The acting world is tough. It's competitive - and even more so for women - but actually, for black female actresses, the issue isn't really that it's competitive: it's that there just aren't enough roles for them in film and TV.
Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.