Music Quotes

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Music is reflection of self, we just explain it, and then we get our checks in the mail.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

You don't get another chance. Life is no Nintendo game.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of 'Encore.' So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.

The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto; I'd say I lived in the 'hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Believe it or not, I thank my mom for how she raised me in a neighborhood where I had to jump and chase daily. It only made me what I am today.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die. Dreams see us through to forever. Where clouds roll by for you and I.

It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really wanted me to go back on stage and do the Supremes music, so I went about trying to make it happen. We'll go on tour in the summer.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realize that.

I work with my brother Finneas, and he produces all of my music in his little bedroom in our house. We actually tried renting out a studio for a month when we were producing 'Don't Smile at Me,' but it was really hard there, and we ended up just doing it at home anyway.