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" My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle. "

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" I started writing songs when I was eight. "

" 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'm always hustling. "

" I don't take time off. "

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

" I love tattoos. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there. "

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

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

" 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 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.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I never got nervous performing my own material. "

" 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. "