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All Quotes by author - Macklemore

" Bullying is a national epidemic. "

" Do you want to live life, or do you want to escape life? "

" I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording. "

" I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid. "

" I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for it. You weren't able to enjoy it.' I want to be here, be now and be grateful. "

" I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems. "

" I got sober, and I got happy again. "

" I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist. "

" I'm as honest as I can be. "

" I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song. "

" I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base. "

" I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line. "

" I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine. "

" I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it. "

" It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not. "

" It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?' "

" Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine. "

" My partner has to have good sized bones. "

" Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. "

" Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create. "

" The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes. "

" Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find. "

" Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself. "

" We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it. "

" You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it. "

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