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" I don't consider myself an A-list celebrity or a big dog, but every time I meet somebody, even rappers who've been in the game for years... they're like, 'Man, I'm trying to get on your level.' "

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" Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place. "

Wiz Khalifa

Loving

Family

Growing Up

" I don't take time off. "

" My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun. "

Wiz Khalifa

Influence

Have Fun

" I started writing songs when I was eight. "

" I never want to confuse people or go over their heads. "

Wiz Khalifa

Want

Over

" People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy. "

Wiz Khalifa

People

Just

" I think wherever you go, when people hear good music, they will react to it. "

" You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are. "

" I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus. "

" Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me. "

Wiz Khalifa

Other

Whatever

" I love my wife. We FaceTime and we talk on the phone and she travels to come see me when she can. But she works as well. But we see each other a lot more than people would think, though, because we make it happen and we love each other so much. "

" I groom, but it doesn't take me a long time to get to what people see. "

Wiz Khalifa

Long

Long Time

" I'm always hustling. "

Wiz Khalifa

Always

Hustling

" When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist. "

Wiz Khalifa

Myself

Artist

" I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success. "

" Every day is new. It's just a new day. I look at six hours at a time. "

" I made my first mix tape when I was 14. "

" I sleep on my stomach with my head under a bunch of pillows so if someone wants to come in and try to kill me they can't tell if I'm there or not, so they'll just leave. "

" I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be. "

" I like a lot of old-school R&B, soul, and classic rock. "

Wiz Khalifa

Classic

Classic Rock

" I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something. "

" I never got nervous performing my own material. "

" 'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name. "

Wiz Khalifa

Leader

Light

" I have a huge span of fans, some who know all my radio songs and are familiar with my popular stuff and then some who have their own personal favorites. When I do my show, I try to take into consideration all those people. "

" Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from. "

" My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd. "

" I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more. "

" Yeah, baggy jeans are done. Nobody wants to wear big, baggy jeans. Baggy jeans are completely over with. "

" Brand names aren't important to me at all. "

Wiz Khalifa

Brand

Names