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" To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label. "

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" Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along. "

" I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting. "

" My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool. "

" Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy. "

" I'm cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend. "

" Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup. "

" When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you. "

" I'm not going to lie; listen, I'm nice at basketball. "

" People like to build their own story about my life. I don't know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich. "

" I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess. "

" I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would stop and say, 'Oh, that's the hook right there,' I'll move that to the first four bars of the verse and do a new hook. "

" A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It's a real emotional ride. "

" There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing. "

" When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty. "

" I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out. "

" I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can't do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can't get, because... you know... I don't have the tattoos; I have a different image. "

" There are a lot of good women in New York. "

" I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap. "

" I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated. "

" I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he's Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I'm a big fan of his. "

" My life is mine to remember. "

" I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.' "

" 'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.' I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection. "

" When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it. "

" Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time. "

" Kanye West is my favorite artist. "

" I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day. "

" Trying to meet new women, it's always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that's single and trying to rebuild that connection. "