DMX’s New Album Is Totally Going on Jesus’s iPod

“No songs about bitches, no songs about robbing, just straight ‘Give God the glory.’� —DMX on his upcoming gospel album [MTV]

“I take that as a high compliment, actually. Thank you. I really do. We could have titled the movie There Will Be a Morally Unambiguous Ending.� —Paul Thomas Anderson on his tendency to make tidy, unambiguous films [A.V. Club]

“I don’t expect to peer over [the director’s] shoulder saying ‘No, no! You can’t change that!’ But if anyone decides that Halt, the bearded, grim-faced Ranger, should be played by Scarlett Johansson, you’ll hear me screaming all the way across the Pacific.� —author John Flanagan on United Artists Films’ acquisition of his Ranger’s Apprentice novels [LAT]

“I have to remind myself [that I’m] a fat crackhead who’s lucky to be alive.� —DJ AM on how he stays grounded [Glamour via People]

“You don’t know how many people come up to me and say, ‘This child was conceived listening to you.’� —Janet Jackson, who promises more baby-making songs on her new album [Extra via People]