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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular. "

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

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" I never got nervous performing my own material. "

" The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz. "

" Since I was younger I've been making the best out of nothing. "

" I started writing songs when I was eight. "

" I don't take time off. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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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. "

" I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me. "

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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.' "

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

" 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. "

" Whatever I do, I do it because I want to do it and because it's completely, 100% me. "