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" 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. "

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" The Kyle who made 'Smyle' honestly has a little more conflict in his life. He has a little more weight on his shoulders. He feels like he has to make an album about something. It's a Kyle with duty, with a plan, with a responsibility. "

Kyle

Plan

Conflict

Responsibility

" At some point, I had to ignore what people thought of me. I had to be my own biggest fan from an early age. Once I learned that, it was like a superpower. That was the armor that got me through high school. "

Kyle

Ignore

Age

" Growing up in California has completely made me the person that I am. "

" You just don't know how uncool it is to be Kyle until you're Kyle. "

" 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 played football. I was pretty bad at that. "

" 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. "

" 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 am a pretty bad driver, so when I drive, I need to be calm. I can't be vibing to DMX, all hype, in the car. "

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

" I've always been such an album-driven artist that I never really stopped to think about how cool it would be to just have one really big song. "

" I really love 'Mr. Rager.' I know the first album is incredible, but my favorite Kid Cudi album is the second one. "

Kyle

First

Kid

" Everybody on my street was broke, running around with no shoes on. We didn't have money, but we played tag, we talked. It was great. "

" I want to make an impact on people. Like John Lennon writing 'Imagine,' a song that changes an entire generation of people. "

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

Kyle

Nobody

Will

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

" For me, I feel like the most important part of music is the storytelling behind it, and that's my favorite; that's what makes my favorite artists my favorite artists, having the story that I relate to the most and that helps me the most. "

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

" When I heard my first rap song and figured out what that was, I kind've stuck to it. I always wanted to be a musician in general, an entertainer. I just started rapping. I never decided, 'Oh, I want to be a rapper.' "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" My family loves Mark McGwire. "

" 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. "

" Yachty is a genius. "

Kyle

Genius

" 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. "

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

" I'll always have my fan base. I know my actual fans are rockin' with me even when my haircut was messed up. They're never gonna leave. "