Life's Pleasures Quote by Andre Benjamin

Andre Benjamin lands this like a grin you can hear: the tidy celebrity confession that swerves into a punchline, then swerves again into something truer. He starts with the expected resume of self-control - rarely drinks, doesn't smoke - a familiar way for public figures to signal discipline without sounding preachy. Then he flips the script. If he has a vice, it's "creating": not self-destruction, but compulsion. The word "addicted" is doing double duty here, flattering the work ethic while admitting the darker edge of obsession. Creativity isn’t framed as inspiration; it’s framed as need.

The tag - "And women" - is the pressure release valve and the tell. It undercuts the saintly aura of the first half, reminding you he's not trying to be a model citizen. It's also a performance of honesty that stays safely in the realm of charm: confessional, but not confessional enough to cost him. That’s classic Andre 3000 energy, the artist as both sensitive craftsman and playful provocateur, refusing to let the audience pin him to one posture.

Context matters: as half of OutKast, Benjamin built a persona on subverting expectations, mixing vulnerability with mischief, intellect with flirtation. The line sells a mythology lots of culture rewards: the "healthy" artist who still burns with appetite. It works because it’s less a moral statement than a self-portrait - controlled on the surface, restless underneath, always reaching for the next thing that makes him feel alive.