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.

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.

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

I've always wanted to do acting.

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

Incubus is fire.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I like being funny; I like laughing with people.

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

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

I feel like I'm a good listener.

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

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

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.

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 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.

I've been compared to Drake before and Kid Cudi.

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.