Quotes from Goldlink

At What Cost' means so many things: go-gos were shut down for our good, but at what cost?

It's the bounce in go-go that inspires me.

Black culture is pop culture, Black History Month is every month, and that's something they want us to forget. What better way to remember than to highlight all of our differences as a singular people across the globe?

I'm going to make my own 'Trapped In The Closet' one day, about a black kid growing up in the hood.

I read slowly, I watch movies slowly, because I retain everything.

If I'm too cocky or too arrogant, it's like, 'Ugh.' But if you're too on the other side, you take away some of those other emotional aspects, and I just kinda like to have a balance.

I'm gonna find creative ways to connect with people that actually matter and exist. That's kinda like my goal, like, how can we creatively do things in a different way so that we can actually get people and talk to them?

Without Mac Miller, there would be no GoldLink.

Mac Miller is my best friend in the industry.

The thing is, Mac Miller wrote all of 'Divine Feminine.' That was a great album.

More people should rap about reality.

I knew that it's typical for a black kid to say, 'I'm just going to rap.' I was like, 'I'm going to rap, but I'm going to study, I'm going to figure out what this is and how to put it together.'

If you believe that there is a God, then you know that God doesn't show his face. He speaks to you, you feel him, but you've never seen him.

Go-go is so drum and Congo based. It's almost like music from Africa. The drums like on 'Planet Paradise' are deeply African-rooted. It's really bouncy and the same speed as go-go music. That's an example of the influence go-go had on me.

When I was in senior year of high school, my mom lost her job, we lost our house, and we had to move in with my uncle and my aunt.

Real love is unconditional.

I'm real sexy and I make sexy music so I'm going to be Prince meets Nelson Mandela.

Sober Thoughts' is a song about an unhealthy relationship I was in with a girl, where we would continue to mistreat each other, to spite each other. We were bad for each other, yet we always came back together, because we thought we 'loved each other.' It was a young love, not a forever love.

I just wear the uniform of the city I'm from.

I really don't want to be a stereotype.

GoldLink is about my music and not so much about me. But it's cool that people are starting to notice who I am outside that.

When I started soul-searching, I tapped into the old me and what I grew up around. I learned a lot about myself, and it really made me appreciate my upbringing.

We're all people at the end of the day.

I just see potential in things that aren't there and how it's going to make you feel. Like, if it makes me feel a certain way, I try and create the vibe of how that felt to me. And try and create it for someone else.