Idolator

- Diddy on what he's learned about relationships: "If you love somebody you don't force it. You don't love them because of what you can get out of them. You don't love them because they look good or because they make you look good. She can be the hottest chick in the world, but if she can't brighten up your day and your darkest hour, it don't even matter. Now I really want to try to get it right." [NYT, TimesSelect req.]
- The Gossip's Beth Ditto on growing up queer in the Bible Belt: " I remember I had a high school boyfriend and everything, and I had broken up with him numerous times because I had thought I needed to date girls, and there would be no girls to date, so I'd get back with him. I would say, 'Just please, God, don't let me get knocked up. I don't want to make this decision for myself.' It was scary." [Windy City Times]
- GZA on cutting down his weed intake: "Twenty years of smoking...blunts...you have to stop at some point. That many years of smoking, blunts at that, is harsh to the lungs or the body. Also, [folks get] that high, [and] look stupid look sometimes. Not that I walked around looking stupid all the time, but it just wasn't a good feeling. I stayed tired. I would take like four or five naps a day. That's how it was. So I just had to leave that alone." [AllHipHop]