I don't need to be a banger. I dunk on people.

I feel like in the course of my career, I've been in the iPhone era and the dilution of the big man.

I definitely have to focus more and think more on what exactly I'm doing, rather than just use my athleticism.

I block shots and stay out the way.

I'm hoping I'm remembered as one of the most prolific shot-blockers.

I used to be a wait-at-the-rim big, more of a Rudy Gobert-type of player.

I feel like people think that I have mental lapses and I'm injury-prone, which isn't true. You just don't know me.

Going to Golden State, I really fine-tuned everything on defense, which is important because the NBA is moving away from standard bigs and going toward bigs that can switch and things like that.

I'm not really a confrontational person.

They see a blooper here and there, and they just think, 'Oh, he's dumb.' I mean, what can I do? I can't 'at' everyone on Twitter and tell them I'm not dumb. Because that looks dumb.

It's just crazy the way people portray me.

My mother always made me do ball-handling and all that because she was like, 'What if you stop growing?'

In high school I used to go coast to coast all the time at 6-11.

I'm just going to try to get as many rebounds as possible.

If you can't breathe, you can't do nothing.

You bring a car out, you're going to win any dunk contest.

Usually I'm nowhere near the playoffs. My last game of the year is usually at the end of the regular season in April.

I think about all the time how I'll be able to say that during my career, I played with the greatest players of my era. Hopefully, I'll be able to say I won championships with those players.

Sometimes I think some things just happen and are meant to be.

My career was dwindling down and I got to be in Golden State for two years and show I still have it.

I've always loved blocking shots.

Whatever happens, however fast it's supposed to happen, it'll happen.

I don't even believe in hope. I just let it happen.

I'm not boring.

I have extreme ADD.

Some people think I'm dumb, but I feel like things I say, especially on Twitter, are done purposely, because I'm bored.

I don't see the point of Twitter, so I write a lot of stuff to mess with people. But because I used to do dumb things on the court, people think I'm dumb in regular life. But once people meet me, they feel dumb themselves.

I've always been in love with film and music.

When I do things, I just fully commit to it.

I'm just a big kid, basically. I love to have fun.

People around the NBA really think that I'm dumb or stupid. But people that know me know that I'm actually very intelligent.

I don't think people realize that I produce like 90 percent of all my music, except for the songs that I co-produce with people.

I'm actually good friends with Diplo, and we've talked about collab'ing.

My main goal is to help the team as much as possible anyway I can. If they need me to shoot the three, I'll shoot the three. If they need me to run the floor and block shots, I'll do that also.

I guess I'm a utility player where I can do it all.

I wish I could do more in Flint but they estimated the amount that it would cost to fix Flint and it would be a little over $1 billion and I'm definitely not a billionaire. It's extremely heartbreaking the way the city is being treated in my opinion.

I'm not really a vengeful person.

The fact that rich people get free stuff and poor people have to pay, it's backwards.

I grew up in Flint, Michigan so I'm used to broken promises so I don't look forward to anything. I look forward to the now. I don't even like planning trips more than a week ahead because you don't know how you're going to feel a week from now.

During the season, the main focus is always basketball.

I'm on Instagram, and all my fans on my Instagram are basketball fans - like 90 percent.

Sometimes I go in and try to write beats, but I just trash 'em, and then the next time I go in, I'll make like six beats - six legit, nice beats. I'm really particular with how it needs to sound.

I don't think people understand how good LeBron is.

I love L.A., L.A. was beautiful for me.

If you put negative things out about anyone every day, they're gonna start believing it, sorta like propaganda if you think about it.

When I got to the NBA, I got a Macbook, and the first thing I did was buy Logic.

I'm a producer and not a rapper. So I can make any style of music I want. I can make an EDM beat. I can put an EDM track out one day and I can put a grungy hip-hop track out the next day, like, it doesn't matter.

I'm JaVale McGee, the basketball player, funny guy, whatever, whatever. But I'm just really passionate about music and I don't want people to look at it like 'Oh he's just doing it to get famous.' I'm already pretty famous as is, so I'm not really trying to do it for the money.

I'll stay in the studio for 12 hours at a time, just producing music and making records. It doesn't feel like 'Oh man I've got a job to do.' It's more like 'Oh man I didn't even realize I've been there this long.'

I literally have never lived anywhere longer than two years in my life. I never just stuck anywhere.