I hate eating vegetables. The only vegetables I eat are lettuce on a burger.
Chance The Rapper
I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.
My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.
Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.
Something I try to instill in others is to just be a good person. It's a decision you make a million times a day. But if you just keep trying, good stuff comes to you in an ordained way.
I'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.
The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
When I found Freestyle Fellowship, I started getting into the construction of rap. You get better at it the more you do it; you figure out the science and the math behind it.
There's so much positivity in the world and your day-to-day life that to go as far as to say that you hate something or you wish it didn't exist and all the bad things in the world happen to you and only you, it's a joke. It's not real to have that much hate in your heart.
Where he tells you exactly how he views the world - just very straight Kanye, honesty that definitely gets your creativity and strong opinions out on the floor. I think it helped me find myself.
I've come to understand that art is awesome and beautiful because it's a reflection of life - but it's just a reflection, and the real thing is my daughter.
Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.
I'm definitely tired of playing 'Acid Rap.' I'm definitely tired of playing 'Juice.'
I feel like LeBron James is an amazing basketball player, but he's also a community person.
I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into Michael Jackson as a kid.
Taylor Swift is just dope. She is an ill songwriter.
I can't really speak on her policies, but I feel a certain connection to Hillary Clinton that's just not there with Donald Trump.
My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.
I don't see myself ever being in a position where I need to sign to a label.
I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird.
When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place that do that. Chief Keef did it; Kids These Days did it; Cool Kids did it. And I'm the next Cool-Kids-Chief, if you will.
My daughter, when she was still in utero, she had, they call it atrial flutters. It's kind of like an irregular heartbeat. But when you're in utero, it's real hard to detect and also to treat.
Anything is respectable in its own realm.
I have a bigger voice than Donald Trump, you know what I'm saying? Than literally anybody that works in politics.
I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.
There's always been a quiet conversation and joke that if you're not hard, if you're not from impoverished neighborhoods, if you're not certain constructs of a black stereotype, then you not black.
Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.
I make my money off of touring and merchandise. And I'm lucky I have really loyal fans that understand how it works and support.
I want my music to be beautiful.
I'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.
I'm just trying to be an example for all the young artists that are becoming artists every day and working on their craft and trying to help them avoid the pitfalls of the upper management in music and the non-music side of music.
I feel like, at a certain point in life, I'd like to be the type of man that gets married and has more serious relationships.
I want to tell people to read 'The Prince' by Machiavelli - check that one out. It's just changed my attack so - I think so much more inwardly.
I think the only thing that's really going to make a change in terms of how we feel as citizens in terms of safety and our relationship with the police is if we start seeing more federal indictments, arrests, and convictions of police officers.
I used to be the class clown. I was the funny kid. That's why it was so hard for people to understand that I rap, because for a long time, they didn't take me seriously for who I was. By, like, eighth grade, I was really rapping.
The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do.
'Hamilton' is revolutionary in terms of writing.
I think #BlackLivesMatter is a huge campaign that is important and integral to our advancement as a people.
When you make stuff from the 'you' point of view, you really can't go wrong.
I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you're a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, 'I'm a musician.' Or, 'I'm an artist.' 'I'm a recording artist.' 'I'm a vocalist.'
The whole point of 'Acid Rap' was just to ask people a question: does the music business side of this dictate what type of project this is? If it's all original music and it's got this much emotion around it and it connects this way with this many people, is it a mixtape? What's an 'album' these days, anyways?
I still think that God means everything to everyone, whether they understand it or not or can see for themselves.
Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.
When you become a parent, you start loving diapers.
I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions.
I don't agree with the way labels are set up. I don't agree that anyone should sign 360 deals or sign away their publishing or take most of the infrastructure that's included in a formal deal.
If I was to buy a suit, I'd probably go to Men's Wearhouse - because you're going to like the way you look; they guarantee it.
Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.
I can't see myself ever having somebody say something about me on a song and me being like, 'All right, now I'm about to say something about them on a song.'
I think it's very important for America that we're represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.
