You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.
If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.
I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.
I be more hipper than a hippopotamus Get off in your head like a neurologist
Like most people in radio - and in magic - I'm not cool. I know people who are hip, and I can feel distance between them and me.
If I'm hip, we've got a problem in this country. I really shouldn't be held up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I'm sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There's a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact.
I've been riding motorcycles since my early 20s, and I loved the hipness of the subculture.
If you're a lead actor, people are just waiting to say 'you're too old' or 'you're too unhip.' If you're a supporting actor, you can just work forever.
I would say, the new hipness is #yoga.
When I come around people, I'm up to date on everything. I know all the new music that's coming out, all the stuff that ain't came out yet.
If you're trying to be hip, be hip.
Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.
Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway.
I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
I'm realizing I'm not hip enough to know for sure what would be considered pop-culture.
Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was.
anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.
I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
I didn't know how to be cool. I didn't know how to have swag.
