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" I had the type of family who would tell all their kids, 'You're going to be president.' "

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" I wanna make music that helps people. "

" I grew up really kind of mixed up. I lived with my white grandparents and mom and got made fun of a lot because I talked like her. "

" The most powerful, most insightful, and most important part of my music is honesty and inclusiveness with my fans - giving them as deep a story as I can give them. "

" I need to get as deep as I can into my own heart to really make people connect and react to the music as passionate as possible. "

" I'm definitely a West Coast artist, so much so that I'm gonna get 'Thug Life' tatted on my stomach one day. "

" I think about love being so important because, to me, that's the reason we were put on Earth. Love, in a sense, is God to me. "

" When you roast yourself, it makes everybody else comfortable. "

" My style has been compared to someone probably like the Fresh Prince. "

" That was everything to me as a kid. When I'd see someone on MTV, it was like, 'Wow, they're the real deal.' "

" We really have the power to illuminate all negative things in our life, but we have to find that light source inside of us and really tap in with it and reconnect with it. "

" Doesn't matter if you're sad or happy. I can be sad, you can be happy; it's all good. That's all I'm saying - let's just be us. "

" The name 'Light of Mine' came from how the album was conceived and what its purpose was in telling my story. I started making it at a time when I was, more or less, in a darker place than usual. "

" Pete Rock, CL Smooth, all this East Coast stuff - that's kind of, like, the rappers I first admired. I wanna rap just like them because I just thought they were so hard. I thought their delivery was so crazy. "

" I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it. "

" Shooting a music video sometimes can be a job. "

" Big Sean could get on a verse with anybody and probably annihilate them. "

" As I grew up and really - 22, 23, 24 - I was faced with new problems that were bigger. A lot of them were issues that pertained to people that were super close to me. "

" I would want people to be their own superheroes, save their own days, know that nobody else is gonna do it for you. You have to pick yourself up out of your dark moment; you gotta be your own source of light, just like I was for me. "

" I like being funny; I like laughing with people. "

" I've always wanted to make people feel better or feel alright or feel comfortable or not threatened and feel OK in their own skin. "

" I feel like one of my strengths is writing about stories that are unique to me but somehow relate with everyone, and the one thing I've found is that if you make a song wholly unique to you, then you don't have to compete with everybody, because nobody else can make a song like you. "

" I never had a plan B; I would walk around with my head up in the clouds like, 'I'm going to be a famous singer/rapper person one day.' "

" Randomly enough, all of my favorite rappers growing up were East Coast rappers. I don't know. I just related to them a little more at first - because if you're born in L.A., and you lived there your whole life, Snoop Dogg literally sounds like cars driving by. You feel me? You hear Snoop Dogg so much. "

" There's nobody taller and cooler than Will Smith. He's the coolest tall person, so I'm trying to be like that. "

" My relationship with my father is fine. Every relationship has its ups and downs because bad things happen in all relationships. But for me, I can only write about what I'm feeling in the moment and something that actually happened to me. "

" I don't think anyone has the same music sound as me. I can't think of anyone else. "

" What's important is that people never give up that fight to be happy, because when you do that, that's when things really start to go wrong. "

" I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am. "

" 'Beautiful Loser' had a lot of great records. It had a lot of really heartfelt songs on there. But I felt, at the time, it didn't have it's own cohesive sound. "

" It's important to reassure people that everything is going to be all right. "