Music Quotes

I’ve been wanting to do music since I was 14, but like I’ve really always enjoyed giving speeches and I enjoy talking to people, so I was like, maybe I can be a newscaster.

It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.

I was seeing the effects of what music can do — how it can be healing and bring people joy, but on the flip side, there was this ugliness. I saw the greed and the He-Mans that were willing to f*ck over children.

I think music is honest and will make you do honest things.

People don’t make albums any more. It’s always about singles. I wanted to take that old-school approach.

I remember being obsessed with Christina Aguilera’s ‘Stripped.’ That was her peak, and she is such an amazing singer. Plus, I was a little gay boy, and the music video for ‘Beautiful’ existed, so obviously I was affected.

I grew up with a disabled dad in a too-small house with not much money in a starting-to-fail neighborhood, and I also grew up surrounded by love and music in a diverse city in a country where an education can take you far. I had nothing or I had everything. It depends on which way you want to tell it.

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

I don’t have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I’m making the music.

New York gave me hell for that ‘Purple Swag,’ man. They didn’t respect me until ‘Peso.’