I don't want to be in the spotlight so bad that I'm going to sell my soul, or sell my creativity short.

I feel like I kind of got my own lane, but I think if you mix T.I., Andre3000, Hov and Kanye you kinda get who I am. And I'm a huge fan of all of those artists, I grew up on a little bit of all them.

I can't wait until the record label feels like it's time for my album to come out, and then just disappear.

I'm going to keep proving people wrong, whether it's my record label, other artists.

I just continue to grind on my own. You can't deny good music at the end of the day.

I'm always looking for good music.

Atlanta is not like New York, where everybody piles into one place.

I basically lived through what could have been my downfall and survived it, so whatever comes my way, I'm ready.

It's cool to have a personal relationship with someone who's your idol. Someone whose music you used to constantly listen to, when you were hoping you could make it one day.

A lot of artists just put on the people they can make money off of.

I try to only work with people whose craft I believe in.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you.

The Dark Knight 2008, favourite character Joker always in the right face and showing all humans in one character. A character died from characters!

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

I had to stop going to auditions thinking, 'Oh, I hope they like me.' I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.

Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.