Quotes from Ty Dolla Sign

Working with Babyface was legendary.

OT Genasis is my L.A. homie; I've seen him grind, and he is still making hits.

The mass incarceration going on in this country and with my people is crazy.

People have died in jail that have been innocent.

I've been building slow, step by step.

Tell all the ladies to follow me on Snapchat. I don't want to see no guys snapping me.

The only thing I could be better at is to be around more. Other than that, I'm a great dad. I come to the soccer games and teach her stuff, go over her homework with her every night; we stay on the phone. I try to be as good as a dad as I can be.

I used to go to the Church of the Harvest, right off Adams and La Brea. There was a pastor there who had the best big choir and the best band. He would start praying, and the music would start playing and just make people feel so good, you could break out of whatever you were going through. Soft music can have that effect, too.

I never gave up, but a lot of the homies did, and I don't feel sorry for them.

Every time I hear 'Miracle,' I feel a certain type of way.

I mess with white girls, Asian girls, Spanish girls, black girls, everything.

I write other people songs. Recirculate it. It's the music business.

I grew up around a lot of church musicians.

When we dropped 'Toot It And Boot It,' Mustard didn't even do beats, and now he's killin' it. So it's just cool to see all of my bros taking over.

Yeah, it's Pushaz Ink for life. Me, YG, and Mustard started a movement, and we brought back the West.

One of my uncles played in The Isleys. I went to all their shows.

I've got all of the old school vinyls from the '70s - even further back, like the jazz music in the '40s, '50s, '60s. Then I've got all the '80s stuff underground, hip-hop when hip-hop really first started. The '90s stuff. All of the good stuff, because I'm really into music, and it helps me create new songs now.

Ever since Apple Music, Spotify, and all of those things came around, we can choose whatever we want to listen to. Before then, it was all controlled, but now, everybody listens to everything.

At first, I ain't gon' lie, I used to be a little nervous about what people were gon' think about my music, but once I let that go, then everything started happening.

I'm never satisfied. I want to get to the next level.

It's hella crazy being included in the music for the 'Ninja Turtles' movie.

Everybody just wants to steal each other's energy.

I had a kid, so I had to step it up and get that cake.

That's where I got lucky; nobody else is doing what I do or really can do what I do.