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

I've always wanted to make people feel better or feel alright or feel comfortable or not threatened and feel OK in their own skin.

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

Mike Tyson and Kool G Rap had lisps - lisps always been cool!

My family loves Mark McGwire.

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.

I feel like the biggest key to longevity is maintaining what's special about yourself but always presenting it in a new way. That way, people can never get tired of you.

I heard 'Why,' and I think that's when I first started learning about Jadakiss.

Imagine if James Brown was your roommate. What? Do you know how much fun you'd be having all the time? Oh my God, he would have you looking the freshest. He would have you doing the funnest stuff for sure, easily. You'd be having the most crackin' parties.

I'm afraid of the dark.

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.'

Around when I turned 17 and I bought my own studio equipment and started recording myself, I kinda found my own voice. I just started rapping like my normal self and this happy guy.

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.

I always wanted to do magic tricks - I feel like that could be the the next wave.

I wanna make music that helps people.

I'm a drama kid at heart. That is definitely where my heart and soul is. I did 'Hairspray' in high school - I was Seaweed.

I need to get as deep as I can into my own heart to really make people connect and react to the music as passionate as possible.

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've been compared to Drake before and Kid Cudi.

I look at old performers like James Brown: back in the day when you actually had to work hard to get poppin'. I look at all those types of performers. Even like Kid n' Play and the Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff and Salt-N-Pepa. That era where they had to perform. You couldn't just rap. It had to be an entire performance.

Randomly enough, all of my favorite rappers growing up were East Coast rappers. I don't know. I just related to them a little more at first - because if you're born in L.A., and you lived there your whole life, Snoop Dogg literally sounds like cars driving by. You feel me? You hear Snoop Dogg so much.

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.

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

When you're the cool guy, you don't know how to take people not liking you. I've already been there, done that.

I feel like I'm a good listener.

I don't feel pressure to act like other people or rap like other people, because I just can't.

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

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

I like being funny; I like laughing with people.

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

I played baseball. I kind of sucked at that. They used to call me 'The Buntmaster' because my coach never wanted me to swing.

Music fills peoples with life. It doesn't have to be a 'happy song.' If you have that one song that relates to you, whether it's a sad song or a gangster song, whatever relates to you the most in that moment, it can literally get you through the day.

What's important is that people never give up that fight to be happy, because when you do that, that's when things really start to go wrong.

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

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.

Incubus is fire.

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

I've always wanted to do acting.

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

Nobody can deliver a line better than Jadakiss. That's where I learned my technique. He can deliver punchlines so perfectly wrapped up for you to enjoy. If I had a different favorite rapper, I wouldn't be able to make some of the music I do.

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.

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.

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

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

Most people have perceived my brand and my personality as this guy that just is so happy, he has no cares in the world.

I did have a speech impediment.

As I grew up and really - 22, 23, 24 - I was faced with new problems that were bigger. A lot of them were issues that pertained to people that were super close to me.

I have a really diverse family and have a diverse background in music.

Yachty is a genius.

Big Sean is one of the dopest rappers, of my lifetime for sure. Like, Big Sean is one of the best rappers. Period.