Quotes from Machine Gun Kelly

I feel like a celebrity is someone who sits and takes pictures with people 'cause they love themselves and how they look and how people look at them. But I just want to be regular and respected for my artistry because music doesn't necessarily have a face.

A lot of time, my inspiration comes from pain: growing pains, hunger pains, or money pains.

I've never been comfortable with sharing anything: I was a single child.

I have so many accomplishments under my belt.

As I was coming up, there was so much naysaying, there was so much doubt, whether it was from my peers or people in the industry.

I'm not that great of a speaker. I don't like watching my own interviews. I think I suck at talking, but one thing I can do is move my pen, and if that's how I gotta speak to my daughter, then let me do that.

I think that me as a person, and as a personality, even my name alone, 'Machine Gun Kelly' - it is very loud, and it says a lot.

I love surrealism.

I think I've watched and been around so many people that are of a high celebrity grade that I've attempted to soak in every kind of way to deal with fame.

I just keep getting inspired to believe that dreams come true and anything can happen, 'cause I've watched so many impossible things happen.

They always say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere, but I say that about Cleveland.

I'm trying to be the Dr. Dre of Cleveland.

With anything that happens in Cleveland, I always get involved.

The last thing I want to do is be complacent.

There's something about America's sweetheart and America's bad boy. That juxtaposition is what everyone desires.

I don't think having a conservative mind in 2012 is a cool thing.

I've become so much more comfortable divulging things I've never talked about before, honing in on certain relationships that everyone can relate to.

I think, with music, I'm a lyricist who talks about real life things.

Life is too short to live the same day twice. So each new day make sure you live your life.

Fame is the weirdest thing ever.

I'm from Cleveland. I don't have any famous parents. I don't have any media training, I don't have a history in the industry to where I would have any preconceived notions of how I'm supposed to be.

I actually have an Avenged Sevenfold tattoo on my body.

I'm an anarchist. I have it tattooed on my stomach.

I'm not one of those acts where it's, like, this mainstream person, where the average white kid at Harvard University is like, 'It's educational tonight. Let's all go out there and spend Dad's money.'