“Even though Prince wasn’t rapping and it was a whole different era, it shows how artists expressed themselves without saying too much, and that was the real beauty of the art.”

At the end of the day, I don’t know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it is they do.

When you start to become famous, you can hop into any kind of field just because of the name you have and the credentials you have.

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

Moving on is easy what your leaving behind is what makes it hard.

Every girl deserves to be treated like a princess.

That’s how you become successful, man – you gotta stay busy.

Online is online. It’s a whole other world. It’s not actually real life.

My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn’t want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

I’m working on this fashion line that’s all inspired by Vietnam. I’m Vietnamese so a lot of the clothes are inspired by Vietnamese culture, and I’m trying to mix that with the streetwear style.

I never knew that I would be actually designing clothes or as into fashion as I am now.

Wake up everyday stronger than yesterday, face your fears and wipe your tears.

Sometimes I’ll have a whole song done without having a beat – I’ll just rap on an instrumental tempo and recreate a whole new song just around the lyrics.

Lil Wayne would probably be a big musical inspiration for me, because growing up I was just the biggest Wayne fan and being able to be signed to him and watch his whole journey to the peak of his career is great.

The media has a lot of power, and everything I do is what I want people to see, whether it’s putting out a new single, dropping a new album, doing a new movie or new collab with a designer – this is what I want people to see.

I don’t like Drake as a person. He’s just fake to me.

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you’re giving it up, you’re at the mercy of so many other people.

The art of survival is a story that never ends.

I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

I know that my look is more “toothpaste model” as opposed to artsy, which sucks because I can play those roles.

Art’s greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It’s the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That’s why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.