Quotes from Kevin Gates

One of my most popular songs, 'Satellites,' I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.

I'm glad I can't vote.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

I like Peter Tosh, Bob Marley of course. All of Capleton, Sizzla, Frisco Kid, Buju Banton.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

I always wanted a family.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

I look at other people's lives, and some people feel like they're too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, 'cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn't have. So I still get them.

I think California has the best energy.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don't really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it's way more intricate than what meets the surface.

I vent through my music. That's the only outlet I have.

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

When you stand for something, you've got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

It's a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

I don't really like talking. I like to execute. I'm not a talking person. I'm an action person.

Don't respect a lot of rappers, feel I had a harder life

To be honest I am not lookin to be romantic, already got someone at home

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I'm in.