I want to help, and I wanna learn more about what's going on in the world. I just wanna be alert.
I'm not influencing the youth in no bad way. I'm doing can drives at my shows.
People bashed Drake based off the fact that he didn't suffer. Who cares! Do you like the music or not?
I enjoyed being a teenager.
I'm like the youth's big brother now. I have to be that voice for them.
My dad did not play Biggie or Tupac, so I had never heard it.
They treat you as if you are a different kind of human or life form when you are a celebrity - as if we don't breathe the same air, or we don't bleed the same - and I hate that. I really hate that.
I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't do nothing, bro.
I've got songs that sample 'Mario Bros.,' 'Charlie Brown,' the 'Rugrats' theme, the music that plays when you turn on a Gamecube.
I was in college and got arrested. It was a real scare for me/wake-up call/'Man, you better do something with your life 'cause you don't wanna be a bum' call. That's really why I took music serious.
Just do what you want to do, and who cares what people think. That's always been my thing.
Most of my influences aren't rap. I love Coldplay.
I did buy my mother a Range Rover and a new crib. It feels good to say that.
One thing Kid Cudi did that I always wanted to do was the crop top, but I need to get in shape if I want to do that.
My dad used to play that Paul McCartney song 'Let 'Em In.' That was dope.
Frank Ocean is super dope! He's like a ghost. He's, like, not really real. I didn't think he was real until I met him.
When you come from living in a dorm room with no clothes, no girls, no cars, and then you go to having three cars, girls, and money, you can't help but be genuinely happy that things are moving in a positive direction.
My mom and dad got divorced when I was, like, 8, and when I went to my dad's house on the weekend, he'd play a lot of music: Miles Davis, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Elton John.
When you're in the studio, you can't be like, 'I want to make music that everybody will like!' You have really understand your fan base, what they like, and that's what you do it for.
I used to have visions of flashing lights and red carpets.
