Quotes from Chamillionaire

Most companies that are successful listen to people and see what they want and they make that. So when I used to make songs, I'd make mixtapes. The public would tell me what they like and then I would make songs based on what they like. That's how I knew 'Ridin' Dirty' was going to be big - they told me they liked this kind of music.

I want people to understand how the tech world changes my world.

The future of the world is in the palm of the tech community.

Slick Rick has always been one of those guys real good at telling stories.

What's life if you're not enjoying it?

There are cops who be racially profiling.

I like to give people information; that's to a fault.

Sometimes I'll do something when I'm tired at night, and it'll sound hot. But in the morning, when I'm wide awake, I'll listen again and think it's way off. Nobody else would notice it, but I'm like, I've got to fix that!

I feel that success is the best revenge in this world.

For those of you familiar with me, you know I'm the last person to chase publicity or attention.

I am a career artist. A lot of people come by and they fly by night, but I'm gonna prove that I can stay in the game and have some longevity.

I don't want to be the guy that's sitting here, calling somebody and telling them their dream. I want to be in the seat of the founder.

I'm willing to role the dice with my career to be different.

I'm just living life and enjoying it. Alive, kicking, and doing good. That's what a real winner is.

If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.

I don't want people to think I'm not proud to represent Texas.

I want to do more to create more awareness so that the people in our communities aren't just thinking that you just got to be a basketball player or a rapper, because that's what I thought.

People always put you in a box as a rapper, especially when I get up on a panel and start speaking, and I start speaking when I got some sense. They're like, 'Oh, well, I didn't expect him to have sense.'

I'm a rapper to a lot of people. But I'm also someone who is very entrepreneurial.

I'm a human before I'm even a rapper.

If you look at companies like Twitter, Google, all these companies started with ideas and then everybody used it. In my world, people don't think like that. Rappers chase the next check. They become a slave to labels and eventually that money starts shrinking.

We as rappers have a job and have to get fans music and let them know about stuff that's coming out. So if everyone migrates to Twitter, that's where we go.

I didn't want to be one of these rappers that holds his chain up just faking like he has money. I wanted more.

Ridin' was natural, not forced. I didn't try to make a Grammy record.