Quotes from Kendrick Lamar

We're all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

I don't vote. I don't do no voting.

You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I'm the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would've thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

I don't want to be something that just comes and goes.

My pops and my mom started playing Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers and all these people, but at the same time, they always had Snoop on right behind it in the same mix.

The sky is falling, the wind is calling Stand for something, or die in the morning

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

God to me is love. It's the ruler of all things, whether it's with a person or with music or with your TV. I feel like it's this energy. God is energy, love is energy.

You really can't categorize my music, it's human music.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.

I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.

Tell me how I stay positive When they never see good in me

It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley.

I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

When I'm in the studio, I'm looking for creativity I haven't matched yet, a feeling I haven't felt. It's a high.

I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

Believe in God, it's only one God. F*** all that religion s***. Believe in one God, and do right. Try your best to do right, we ain't perfect. Just do that and everything will be straight.

I live this life at a pace that anyone can go. Know your place, and dedicate your role ...To the faith that you'll die alone

The way people look at me these days - that's the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who've attained a certain position are human.