Quotes from Roddy Ricch

I really just wanted to put out songs with people that I was rocking with.

It's never guaranteed for somebody to be successful. It just really be God.

A lot of street dudes, you know their grandma go to church every Sunday. A lot of people in the pen, a lot of that come from them running away from that. They seen they grandma always going to church, mama always going to church, but they still struggling. This the reality of some peoples' life.

You never wanna rise to the top too fast in anything.

I grew up in church.

Gotta always drink your water.

I listened to Lil Wayne a lot when I was kid.

I've always known that I have a different mentality. I can move in different ways and that's for people to realize.

It's one of the essentials just to have a lighter on me, you never know what you might have to use. I like my lighters to be blue and small, they can fit in a pocket.

A lot of people say I got my own sound. I ain't never really got no comparisons. When people hear my music, they be like, 'He got his own lil sound.'

I like Atlanta a lot but no place beats my house. I just like the Black success in Atlanta. I loved being surrounded by that.

I got a portrait of Nipsey at my house, bro. I got to put a platinum plaque by that, and my brother is not here to share that with me. That's his first platinum single. We did that together.

I always have positive intentions.

I be on some, perfecting my craft, just making sure the music is all the way there.

My biggest moments have been in Philly - I met Jay-Z and Beyonce in Philly, I did the Powerhouse in Philly.

I just wanted to do something positive. I feel like music was the talent that I had, I just had to tap into it.

Kendrick Lamar taught me that life experience is an important part of being a good illustrator. When you're illustrating a story, you have to go based off of your personal experiences.

Jewelry isn't a necessity, but sometimes it can bring out my fashion. Sometimes if I'm wearing very dark clothes, like darker colored, black, anything like that, and I put white jewelry on top, it look crazy because it's like, the contrast of the diamonds and the dark clothes.

Usually, the loudest in the room is the weakes. The quietest man in the room, who is being very observant, is the smartest and the strongest.

I was anti social, but at the same time, people gravitated to that because they wanted to figure out who I was and why I was how I was.

I don't play no one else's game and I don't run no one else's race because if I did that, I wouldn't be who I am.

My music is really my therapy. I really lay all my feelings into the songs, and really just leave 'em there. I don't carry that weight when I'm going throughout life. I'm not sad all the time.

If I'm speaking to the streets and for the streets, they gon' respond. I don't even be thinking about blowing up.

My pops put me on to Jay-Z and Kanye, and my discoveries would be like Future and Kendrick Lamar. I turned my pops on to Kendrick, Young Thug. I feel my mom made me play the Isley Brothers and real, real old music.