I am very sincere. Some people are always kidding, so when you're not, it's going to seem annoying to them.
I am always with London On Da Track, Wheezy, 808 Mafia Mike Will Made It, Ricky Racks.
This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry.
I repeat it until it works. It is important to record, otherwise you lose ideas. That's why I never stay away from the studio, I always [have] something to ask.
It was stressful [to live as a child in a Sylvian Hills]. It's always been complicated, honestly. . . I do not really want to tell you, actually. It bothers me that you want me to tell this.
This is where the guys who copy me are planted: I do not use auto-tune, I sing. That's my advice!
An album is a project with which you have to hit hard.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,. . . when I want any good head-work done I choose a man--provided his education has been suitable--with a long nose.
In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.
Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.