“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 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.

There’s a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly.

Words mean nothing without action.

I don’t really write. I’m an on-the-spot type of person. This beat, let’s listen to it; let’s vibe. And then I’ll do a melody, and then we’ll go back and do it.

Who put this together? I’m the glue.

Drake is an amazing person. Also, a magician. He’s a big brother, super-talent; he’s cool.

You say You love, Don’t you lie.

In my whole career, all I wanted was acceptance from Kid Cudi. I don’t care about nothing else! This dude saved my life.

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

Even when shits dark. Your spirit is light.

Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should.

I can buy anything I want now. It hasn’t changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

I believe in God, family, and McDonald’s. And in the office, that order is reversed.

I’m trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it’s not just them at war – it’s also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.

Every house needs a grandmother in it.