Quotes from JPEGMAFIA

Bjork for sure. Definitely, I would like to do like something with Tommy Genesis, too. There's a lot of people actually.

I don't rely on the strength of my image.

In my opinion, the most dangerous thing an artist can do in this day and age is not embrace the present.

The idea of me being an icon or something is a very funny thing, just because of my own weird insecurities. But, yeah... probably because I toiled away being nothing for so long.

There's no right or wrong way to do things and I think a lot of the SoundCloud rappers with their DIY music are proving that to be true.

Baltimore's just like, it's like being in prison but being on the yard the whole day.

I'm not some patriot. I didn't have some yearning to defend my country or anything. I was poor.

After the military, I floundered around between jobs for a while, and there was an opportunity for me to go live in Japan. I was living on the Okinawa Airport Base, off the grid, no real address.

If I wasn't making music I'd still be listening to it and talking about it. That's why I'm able to chill with Denzel Curry and then Jeff Tweedy, because the thing that's linking us is music.

The U.S. army is pretty terrible. Never join it!

I saw Fear perform live at a young age, so I guess you could say I draw from that same energy.

Rules limit you, and once you start thinking about what the audience wants or expects, it becomes a trap that a lot of artists fall into.

I like for things to be judged fairly.

Black people are not a monolith. Black people have different thoughts. And sometimes people just need to hear the harsh truth - even myself. But you can't manufacture a hard truth and place it on somebody. When Kanye says slavery was a choice, that's not a harsh truth.

Everything I say is true and from the heart. I exaggerate some things, but the core base of it is just facts.

A lot of these dudes in metal, they're just mad at the world because, like... who even knows?

I love soundtracks. I used to have three iPod classics: one with regular music, one with soundtracks, and one with demos on it.

I was born in 1989. I literally watched 'Rocko's Modern Life' on live television.

I enjoy making music more than anything in the world. It's the only thing that it's felt the same since I was like 15.

There are so many odd things that happened that are centered around Britney Spears it's kind of amazing. There's just so many cultural moments centered around her existence and nothing else.

One consistent good thing I can say about the music industry is that at least I can make music freely now, and I don't have to do it when I'm off of a nine to five shift or something.

Well, me and Freaky been knowing each other for a while, and he was always playing crazy music in his room, but he would never release it. He's, like, the most underground rapper I know, and he's crazy talented.

Everyone has a little niche in rap, and I just wanted to carve a piece out of it for myself.

I am used to making people upset and uncomfortable with my lyrical content when it comes to music.