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" 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. "

Kyle

Music

Tell

People

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" 'Beautiful Loser' had a lot of great records. It had a lot of really heartfelt songs on there. But I felt, at the time, it didn't have it's own cohesive sound. "

" I just want to be an artist that makes exactly what he feels. "

" 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. "

Kyle

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Enough

" I grew up really kind of mixed up. I lived with my white grandparents and mom and got made fun of a lot because I talked like her. "

" 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. "

Kyle

Nothing

Lose

" Even if I told my mom I wanted to be a clown or live in the forest, she would be down. "

" It's not about being happy 100 percent all the time, cause that's just life. I make sad songs, too, that really only make the happy songs better. "

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

" I try to make things as versatile as possible. Usually, you have to listen to one artist for a certain vibe and another artist to catch the next vibe. I want to make an album that has all of that in there. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Kyle

Listening

People

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 just want to reach a point where I have an opportunity to impact the entire world with one song. "

" When I hear a beat that makes me want to tell a story, then that's what I'm going to say. "

" I feel like one of my strengths is writing about stories that are unique to me but somehow relate with everyone, and the one thing I've found is that if you make a song wholly unique to you, then you don't have to compete with everybody, because nobody else can make a song like you. "

Kyle

You

Unique

" I'm not ever going to - ever going to be able to put on chains and become the Migos. "

" I feel like what's important is to interact with your fans online. Touring is really important to stay connected with your fans. "

Kyle

Feel

Connected

" That was everything to me as a kid. When I'd see someone on MTV, it was like, 'Wow, they're the real deal.' "

" I wanna make music that helps people. "

" 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.' "

" All I can do with my music is try and be a light for people who are in a dark time. "

" 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.' "

" It's important to reassure people that everything is going to be all right. "