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

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.

Nobody makes me do anything I don’t want to do. It’s my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I’m either my best friend or my worst enemy.

I have normal friends. I sit at my house, and they practically live with me, and I watch them get ready to go to a high school party, hang out with their friends, go to concerts.

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it’s losing friends or losing family. You still gotta stand up and be that guy even when you ain’t having great things. Because you’ve gotta be the spokesperson for your people.

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

I’m passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin’ to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.