"Music now … it's just not fresh. I want my shit to be fresh like in the '80s, when you was waiting on that new Nice & Smooth album. Or that new De La Soul album. I wanna have people hear these songs and be like, 'This is not that same old bullshit." —Lil Jon [MTV]

''I dove in with both feet. If I didn't feel it was morally sound, or that it would be easily misinterpreted that I'm just C. Thomas Howell in [Soul Man], I would've stayed home.'' —Robert Downey Jr. on playing an actor who uses blackface in Tropic Thunder [EW]

"I worry about things I shouldn't worry about, that I don't need to be thinking about, like, what will the world be like for my children? And I don't have children! I think about my future children often." —Amy Adams [MTV]

"I think Huckabee has been incredibly effective, but the least smart thing I've seen him do is stand there with Chuck Norris. It's like, What — can't you get your own fans?" —George Clooney [NYT]

"The odds are always against you. You have got to go over the best material, and that should win out, not withstanding any track record. I don't care how many No. 1's you have written in the past, have you written a new No. 1?" —Clive Davis urges singers to stop writing songs [Reuters via Yahoo]