“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

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.

Though the heart loves it is the mind that commits such passions to memory.

You came at a time when love and attachment were synonymous to me. But oh how things have changed.

If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.

Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?

Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.