“I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it.”

Been about you since I saw you.

I’m not into just one thing; I always felt like I had to have my hand in everything revolving around what I do, whether it’s directing videos, making beats, making music, performing.

Icy love, icy like a hockey puck.

God watch over us. Keep us strong and lifted.

There are people who take fashion at different levels, but personally, I’m just a kid with it.

You will never influence the world by trying to be like it.

My grandad, he has his doctorate in psychology.

‘Days Before Rodeo’ is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

My A&R at Epic got fired the first week I got signed.

I felt like ‘Owl Pharoah,’ not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

I know what my identity is.

I feel like more artists like me should be on the radio. Everything is, like, so controlled by, like, super popular music. You know what I’m saying? Like, c’mon.

If it makes you happy, it doesn’t have to make sense to others.

My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business.

I don’t write; I just go in the booth.

Sometimes I might be sleepy, and sometimes I’ve literally been sleeping backstage, woken up, gone straight on stage or gone crazy. It’s not like I psyche myself; I don’t do any of that.

If you’re not trying to be real, you don’t have to get it right. That’s art.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Art is what you can get away with.

REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won’t make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

Art functioning as propaganda is not art.