If people are not listening to you as individuals, it's always good to get together and make a stand for something.

People say keeping it real is a hard thing to do. Keeping it real is easy. Being fake and being soft is hard to do.

There's a difference between being excited about a trend and being excited about what God is already excited about.

I'm not really a religious person. But I believe that God wants me to do something and it has to do with Thug Life.

I hope everybody thinks they've got the best album. I wouldn't have put mine out if I didn't think it was the best.

Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?

To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.

What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.

Memphis is just like any other city. I'm pretty sure it's like the streets of Baltimore, with your hoods and traps.

Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.

I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can't prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.

Just know that I was once considered just a dreamer... Then I paid my dues and turned so many doubters to believers.

We got skate parks in different states, but me skating? Nah, I'm too gangster; I can't rock with it. But I watch it.

We should be involved in the decision-making about our own lives, and not just sitting around being the living dead.

I try to really understand every aspect of the most high; for me, the most high is Allah... I live my life by Islam.

New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.

If people realized someone would be sorting through their trash, would they be more careful in what they throw away?

Honestly, the biggest setback to my music career was people's perception that I was a reality TV star, not a rapper.

I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth.

I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.

I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.

I got to keep it tight like seams, Cause ain't no fiends Comin' in between me and my dreams, See what I mean, black?

I'm satisfied with a little while you haters want it all. You waitin' for the spring and I'm gettin' it in the fall.

I wish I wasn't famous. I wish I was still in school So that I could have you in my dorm room, how I'd put it on you

I think the whole world has been able to utilize the Internet. I feel like you don't have to be from a certain soil.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else.

As long as I can stay creative and used my mind, it can be 20 hours a day. I sleep four hours, so I've got 20 hours.

Sports is one of the keys to my life. It definitely kept me out of a lot of trouble and gave me a lot of discipline.

I earned the opportunity to stand on stage with many senior artists at YG, and naturally, I gained stage experience.

We're getting older, and we were never taught these things as kids: how to eat the right portions or the right food.

I've had some confrontations after I got out of prison and I'm proud of the fact that I dealt with them differently.

Shout out to J. Cole. We come from the same type of struggles. He put the real in his music, I put the real in mine.

I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out Didn't really appreciate it, 'til the second one came out

I think people think that labels can get you features more than you can get your own. I just doesn't work like that.

When you seek to do something, if you don't know the whole game plan, you're usually going to work against yourself.

Success isn't what you've done compared to others. Success is what you've done compared to what you were made to do.

I wanted to play drums and if I didn't play drums, I wouldn't make music and drums are the foundation for what I do.

My family and my friends-they keep me grounded. Especially my mom, because she would kick my ass if I was to change.

There are plenty of groups that have come out and did whatever they did and have broken up. Especially girls groups.

Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

I love looking at pictures of me in 2012-2017, because every single one of those Machine Gun Kellys looks different.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

When you meet somebody who is vulnerable, there is an attraction. There is something to that. There is beauty there.

I'd say if you can, seize the opportunity, to go to a college or university and strengthen what it is that you have.

You know the block was ill as a youngster Every night it was like a, cop would get killed body found in the dumpster

If people are sitting in the barbershop talking about my butt, it's conversational. That's what people are gonna do.

I'll have you weak in the knees that you could hardly speak, Or we could do like Uncle L and swing an ep in my Jeep.

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