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" I'd love to be more involved in sports. There's so much positive energy - I have to be around it. Especially as I get older. "

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" Most people have perceived my brand and my personality as this guy that just is so happy, he has no cares in the world. "

" My momma will roast my friends all of the time. If you're one of my friends, and you meet my mom for the first time, she will definitely roast you in a polite way. It's just to test your bars. "

" I know everywhere is cool and all, but, at least for me, I was lucky enough to be in southern California. I feel lucky to be from there... I feel like it taught me how to be polite. "

" I felt like I related to East Coast lyricism a little more. Because I couldn't be super gangsta. "

" I wanna make music that helps people. "

" I always been writing songs since I was, like, six. I was listening to Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Frankie Laine and people like that. I was just in the backyard writing songs. "

" I played baseball. I kind of sucked at that. They used to call me 'The Buntmaster' because my coach never wanted me to swing. "

" 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 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. "

" Kid Cudi has saved lives. He saved my life. "

" I ran track, and I was really good at it. I was really fast. "

" I don't feel pressure to act like other people or rap like other people, because I just can't. "

" My favorite rapper of all time is Jadakiss - hands down, no question. "

" 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. "

" I look at old performers like James Brown: back in the day when you actually had to work hard to get poppin'. I look at all those types of performers. Even like Kid n' Play and the Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff and Salt-N-Pepa. That era where they had to perform. You couldn't just rap. It had to be an entire performance. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I heard 'Why,' and I think that's when I first started learning about Jadakiss. "

" Kodak is hard. 'No Flockin' is an amazing song. "

" You never know how many people are compassionate about something, especially when it's not happening to you. You just hope somebody's out there helping. "

" What is a hit? Who can tell? Who decides what a hit sounds like? I needed to remind myself that a hit is whatever people decide is a hit. I don't make hits; I make music. People make hits. "

" I knew that 'Nothing to Lose' wasn't gonna probably go off the same way numbers-wise like 'iSpy,' but 'Nothing to Lose' was more like a statement record for me. "

" I feel like I'm a good listener. "

" Music fills peoples with life. It doesn't have to be a 'happy song.' If you have that one song that relates to you, whether it's a sad song or a gangster song, whatever relates to you the most in that moment, it can literally get you through the day. "

" I want to make a lot of people smile. "

" If you can't love yourself, you can't love other people. "

" 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 feel like the biggest key to longevity is maintaining what's special about yourself but always presenting it in a new way. That way, people can never get tired of you. "

" 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. "

" Around when I turned 17 and I bought my own studio equipment and started recording myself, I kinda found my own voice. I just started rapping like my normal self and this happy guy. "