On vertical travel:"In life...Sometimes you gotta just wait for the next elevator"
On his place in history:
"I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice... It's me settling into that position of just really accepting that it's one thing to say you want to do it and it's another thing to really end up being like Michael Jordan."
On economics:"Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack / And a white man get paid off of all of that"
On love:
"Dating models I had to learn to like small dogs and cigarettes"
On how he's basically just like President George W. Bush:
"I think we're all quick to pull a race card in America. And now I'm more open, and the poetic justice that I feel, to have went through the same thing that he went [through]—and now I really more connect with him on just a humanitarian level."
On books:"Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books."
On philosophy:
"I'm like a tree, I feed the branches of the people."
On home decor:"I specifically ordered persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh"
On missing out: "I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live."
On the art and craft of music videos: "Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you. Imma let you finish. But Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time."
On our fleeting existence:
"If you admire somebody, you should go 'head and tell em' / People never get the flowers while they can still smell 'em."
On martial arts:"Man...ninjas are kind of cool...I just don't know any personally"
On that Taylor Swift thing:
"With new found humility...who am I to run on stage? I would never ever again in a million years do that. Sorry to let you down."
On Nintendo:
"I got into doing beats for the video games I used to try to make. My game was very sexual. The main character was, like, a giant penis. It was like Mario Brothers, but the ghosts were, like, vaginas. Mind you, I'm 12 years old, and this is stuff 30-year-olds are programming."
On responsibility:
"I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle... It's like someone leaving a child at your door...you gotta make sure it stays put...you gotta hold it when the plane is landing."
On joy:
"I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness"
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