I like to turn the venue into a jungle gym, into my playground.
Tory Lanez
If you try to be better every day, more miracles happen in your life.
I'm thankful to God that my life changed, but I'm also still on my grind.
I think people have to look at it from a certain view. I say things because, at the end of the day, I can say whatever I want.
I don't have beef with nobody... You know when it's beef, because then we just start playing scoreboard, and nobody wants to play scoreboard.
Every time I do something in life, I try to outdo myself.
A lot of times, people won't be 100 percent real with their story, and I wanted to give people the drawn-out experience of the perseverance and the struggle that it took to get here.
I have a lot of money, but I still feel broke. When I say I feel broke, I don't mean broke in a financial sense, but I still feel like that kid from the gutter who's still trying to get it, even though I'm at the place I want to be.
My mom died when I was 11 years old.
Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.
Me personally, I don't think I'm even hot enough to be getting dissed.
You're gonna know, if I have beef with somebody, then one of us is just falling out.
I'm a fan of LeBron James. I'm not really a team fan; I'm just a fan of one player.
I just pray to God and make sure I'm good with God.
For me personally, my favourite part of performing is just going in the crowd and doing crazy things that they never expected to see. Challenging myself to do new things that I never expected to do. That's the biggest thing for me.
The way that I learned to be confident was I would ride the back of the city bus and sing very low.
God put me on this earth to bring souls back to the Kingdom of God. You don't need to pray ten times a day - you just need hope. My music is going to stop war; it's the healing music. I see myself in Brazil, in Syria, in Darfur, and places where they really need hope.
I do a lot of writing. People don't actually know how much writing really I do.
I'm here to compete. I'm here to be number one.
I'm here to be the greatest.
I just want to work with the big people and the people who make great music.
I'm like one of those dudes who organically have talent.
When the 'greats of all-time' put out their first albums, it wasn't a thousand features on it. And I'm one of the greats in my eyes.
Everyone is friends with each other, and you have to like what's hot. You have to do all these things as if there's no real feelings. As if you can't dislike something any more. We all just have to be buddy-buddy.
I definitely want to work with Kanye, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande - all the big people.
I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.
'I Told You' is for all the people who've been doubted, the underdogs.
I'm here to be the guy that rubs people the wrong way sometimes.
I have a lot of fans, but a lot of people don't know who I am.
The stars played out the way they were supposed to play out, and I'm in the position I'm supposed to be in.
People live their lives through melodies. If you can't sing, then music is worthless.
Singing is one of the most important components to me. That's kinda how it all started.
The whole 'I Told You,' there's nothing written. That was all out of the feeling. That's why the album is so incredible to me - it's all out of the heart; I didn't take time to pre-calculate it.
I just freestyle. I don't actually write the words on paper. It's just whatever comes into my mind. I'll record three or four lines at a time, get a good take, and do three or four more. It may be whatever comes into my mind. But I care about my craft a lot more than a lot of other people.
Reggae goes in and out. It sounds so good, it feels so good and feels so tropical, but the problem is not everybody is Caribbean. Not everyone is going to sound authentic doing it, and sometimes it comes off cheesy when other people do it.
It doesn't take long to make catchy songs. That's not my problem.
I'm getting money over here. I'm good, I'm young, I'm finally in a position to feed my family; please don't take that away from me.
Swavey, it puts more than one genre of music together. That's the approach I have with all music I do.
Everything that comes out of Canada musically, I support. I support Toronto 100% because I'm on the side of the music.
I'm not a hater. I've expressed this before.
The reason why I called it 'I Told You' is because I wanted to show people that I have been doubted, and I have been in the face of adversity. Coming out of that situation, this is my 'I told you' moment.
It's not the fact that your single can sell. It's the fact that you can sell hard tickets. People will spend money to see you.
I'm a very cultural person, and Canada is a very cultural place.
I don't have a problem with anybody in Toronto.
I know why I'm here. I know why I was placed in music, and it's not by coincidence.
When I get to a certain level, I'll start going by Daystar.
I would like to work with The Weeknd. That's my boy, though; that's my friend.
I believe later in life I'm gonna change my name when I start making the right music.
I like the music from Drake. I like the music from PARTY. I like music from The Weeknd, Justin Bieber.
We just want to be No. 1. Is there a problem with that? Can I be the best? Can y'all watch me be great? Will y'all allow me to do that?
