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When you're bored, you get creative.
I'm just super into redefining things.
I am everything Donald Trump is against.
I think cliche is a good thing sometimes.
I want to give black kids a new superhero.
I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.
I wanted to blend in 'cause I knew I was different.
I don't want to be a queer icon. I want to be an icon.
Hip hop's all about expression. That's why I got into it.
It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.
Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to start a record label.
I think the most important part of the teenage years is wondering.
I want to speak for people who can't speak; they're afraid to speak.
Find people whose morals and vision align with yours, and follow that.
I just always wanted to be part of something where I felt like I belonged.
A lot of my music is about self-discovery because I focus on my teenage years.
We just want to uplift people, inspire people, and get people through their day.
I always wanted to make something that was bigger than me, that wasn't just one person.
Social media is awesome because I can somewhat paint myself the way I want people to see me.
I'm always around creative people, and I'm trying to work on something constantly at all times.
I really want to only put out three projects from Kevin Abstract as far as solo bodies of work.
I don't want to be that artist who's doing the teenage angst thing and draw it out my whole career.
I won't have a standout moment until I perform at the VMAs, meet Ryan Gosling, and hug Sky Ferreira.
I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.
NWA was all-American; Wu-Tang was all-American. It was just a part of America you may not have seen at the time.
The Kevin Abstract project kind of represents being socially awkward in high school, which I'm low-key kind of tired of.
I just want people to be able to put on 'American Boyfriend' and accept to not know. To not know anything about everything.
As soon as I left Georgia, my narrative became about taking risks and the fight for creative bedroom artists with no platform.
I'm never going to search for anyone's acceptance. I'm just going to be me, and people are eventually going to have to accept it.
I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.
I figured it out at a young age: I could meet as many young people online and try to form my own family or my own record label group.
I just want to be Kevin Abstract and exist and help as many people as possible who are struggling with whatever they're struggling with.
We just want people to feel something that they've never felt before. Or at least, something they haven't felt since they were little kids.
Whatever we were saying in our music had to represent something and really stand for something. I just wanted to do something with purpose.
I don't know what it is that I love so much about high school, but I'm attached. The empty hallways. The teachers. They made me feel so much.
I want kids to live through this character I've created. I want them to say that they are Kevin Abstract because they relate to it that much.
No one in my family was creative. One of my sisters went to a university, and pretty much, most of my siblings live a basic and dull lifestyle.
Most of the time, with artists like me who go on to become superstars, you never see them when they are still lost and trying to figure life out.
There are no rules when I'm making stuff. That's why I'm glad I'm not signed. No one's telling me I got to drop this type of single or this video.
The way we like to make music is we'll announce a project when there are zero songs, and then we take that pressure and try to make an album really fast.
Here's the thing: we don't write music for a universal statement; we just share our experiences. And that's all it is. It's always raw and very authentic.
I'm super inspired by Master P and early moguls. They were doing everything. I wanna do that, too. Twenty-six albums in one year. It's possible. Very possible.
I think we're always scared, but we have each other to lean on, so we're not being extremely vulnerable in front of the world by ourselves. We have each other.
For some reason, being gay can be such a sad thing in media, so it's really cool to see someone like me who doesn't look like, I guess, the stereotypical gay guy.
Me just existing and being myself is making change and making things easier for other young queer kids. I want to be me and express that and break new ground along the way.
The underground always has the best ideas. Sometimes those underground artists transcend and make it to the mainstream, but most of the time, the big guys just steal from us.
I think it's awesome when you meet someone that can kind of just get you 110 percent, and no matter how long that lasts, you kind of just take it for what it is and embrace it.
I wrote 'Echo' a few months after moving out of my sister's apartment in Atlanta. I was 17 and just finished high school. I didn't go to prom and didn't walk the stage. I just dipped.
People will tell you for years whatever you have to say isn't important at all. So when you have someone who breaks the mold and speaks up - and you see and identify with that - they become your hero.
I don't really have a blueprint to follow besides watching interviews. Well, I guess the blueprint I do follow is Def Jam, in a way, just because it started in a small space, which is so similar to how we started.