“I have black friends, but I don’t just hang out with black kids. I might pull up with Indian kids, white kids, black kids, whatever.”

You grow up in a small community, there’s no outlet like New York or L.A.

Need ya love, not a need it is a must.

Make money not friends.

You’ve gotta really touch people to move them to buy your records.

I was in early on with ‘Yeezus.’

I love my fans more than anything.

I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It’s, like, a suburb in the area; it’s middle-class. But I used to stay with my grandma in the hood from ages one to six.

How do I block you in real life?

I think of Westernized culture as a good visual for my music.

James Blake is a real good friend of mine. He’s real different than what you think. He’s super turned up.

I’m La Flame at all times. That, at times, can be bad, at times can be good.

I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.

Lord I’m on fire they think that I’m Satan.

I design music; I don’t produce it.

The most ironic thing is my grandfather has his master’s in music composition; he was a jazz composer. My dad was a musician, too. He played more, like, soul music.

I think, with production, I pay very close attention. ‘Cause that’s my favorite thing in music. That’s the whole drive. That’s the reason.

Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn’t be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home.

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I’m one of those scenarios.

Anytime you’re with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me grooming her, getting her tough and getting her ready for all of this and how to deal with it. The last was just her being a strong Black woman who has her man’s back.

I wear black all the time.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

That’s how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.