Quotes from Logic

I would like to think that I'm a gentleman and a nice guy.

I've invested a couple million into touring, and that's paid off.

I wake up every day, I deal with hundreds of thousands, or millions, of dollars. I fund my tours by myself. I do merch by myself. I employ people. I have my own successful company.

From tours to mixing, mastering, graphics, artwork - I've done out of pocket.

Everyone is beautiful, and the world isn't equal - and we need to fight towards that.

I'm not the dude with the message. I'm a human being with different sides, different shades and different emotions, different feelings.

I'm not just going to get a deal; I'm going to get the deal. And in my deal I got by signing with No I.D. to Def Jam, I got full creative control, the money was great, the contract was good, and I got to create the album that I wanted.

I'm no longer the young guy in No I.D.'s studio asking for Kanye beats.

I don't care if you're Christian, you're Muslim, you're gay, you're straight - I am here to fight for your equality. Because I believe that we are all born equal, but we are not treated equally, and that is why we must fight.

I don't party. I don't drink. I don't smoke.

I'm just here to say, 'Just be a good person, and really respect others.'

Money will not give you happiness; it's part of the key.

I truly believe that if I'm out partying and not in the studio, there's somebody out there who will be. When I'm asleep, somebody else is working. So, I have a lot of sleepless nights.

By the time you get what you always wanted, you want something else.

I like to always do my best to make music catchy, so I think a very catchy melody is cool.

I'm not Tupac or this prophetic dude or anything like that. I just want to make music and have fun.

I'm not the rapper that's too cool to tweet and talk to fans.

I grew up on Wu-Tang and Tribe and Nas, all the raw, very New York-driven music. Then when I got older - in my late teens, early twenties - and that's when I started to listen to Drake and J. Cole, and so it wasn't just East-coast.

Black folk who don't realize I'm mixed will treat me like I'm some racist person, or when white people find out I'm black, they treat me with racism, and I don't feel like I belong or fit in anywhere.

Fans tend to think that if you fall in love with an artist... and then he gets bigger, and he grows, and he starts to make a different sound, 'He's changing on us.' But with me, I created all types of sounds from the get go, so you can never say I'm changing; you can never say I'm going mainstream or I'm selling out.

Hate is ugly.

I'm proud to be biracial, and there's a lot of people that say things like, 'I don't see color,' and I completely understand that, but I think different is beautiful, but I think our difference shouldn't separate us, and for me in this era, in this time, in everything that we're going through, my whole thing is just about unity, man.

When I grab the microphone, I am the greatest rapper, musician, and artist that ever lived, ever, in the entire universe - but when I put that microphone down, I am a man with so much to learn, personally and professionally.

When I was, like, 18, that's when I started to really take my own craft seriously and just noticed people were enjoying it. And when I put out my first mixtape, that's when I realized I could make this a career.