Quotes from Machine Gun Kelly

My executive board, my management, my friends, are so ethnically diverse.

Is there someone who can play guitar better than me technically? One hundred percent. But does anyone look better playing a guitar in my generation? Absolutely not.

You can make something out of nothing. I proved that with my career, making it out of the city that I'm from.

Everything is my fault when you're me. I don't know why.

Everyone in our clique rocks a black bandana with the print 'EST 19XX' on them 24/7. As the underdog, you are expected to lose or give up and 'wave the white towel,' so that is why our flag is black. We never give up - never surrender. EST means 'Everyone Stands Together.' The '19XX' is to represent any age.

I think couldn't not make a song called 'Wild Boy' and not be a wild boy.

Puff is more of a mentor rather than someone who's directly involved in my movement or helping me put my album together. It's not like me and him party together. He's definitely more of, like, a mentor.

Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.

I was picked on a lot as a kid because of the way I dressed. Metal and punk music got me through that. I know a lot of people don't understand it, but I love metal.

I'm probably one of the wildest, most out-of-control people in the industry.

I don't believe in hopping from one social issue to the next to be a part of the movement for a moment. Anything I'm involved in is something that I would die for. I can't support things that don't feel genuine.

As far as I'm concerned, I don't really care anymore what people think about me. I'm just gonna be me.

I don't think that my music without pain is good music - and I wouldn't know, because I haven't made any music without pain.

Before I even started listening to rap music, I was really into metal and punk.

I'm not just a great white rapper. I'm a great rapper.

I think more like an entertainer rather than just a rapper. My overall goal is to never be listed as just a rapper. You know how Michael Jackson was listed as a great entertainer? That's what I want to be.

You can't tell my fans that there's a better rapper than Machine Gun Kelly... Hands down, there's no way I'm not in the top five.

The normal MGK reaction that everyone expects is for me to be angry and go off, because my history shows that's the type of attitude I'm bringing to the table.

Cleveland, Ohio, is the real deal.

I love looking at pictures of me in 2012-2017, because every single one of those Machine Gun Kellys looks different.

I've graced almost every stage in N.Y., from Webster Hall to Gramercy Theater to Best Buy.

When the universe throws something your way, or things happen, I'm one of those people that goes with it, and I don't fight it.

I'm fortunate to have a baby girl who's super into everything that I say and do and really cooperative and just fun to be around. I couldn't imagine having a rebellious kid like me.

It's crazy. Even doing that one episode of 'Catfish,' I get people recognizing me for it who didn't even know my music.