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

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.

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.