Quotes from August Alsina

My music is a gift from God that saved my life.

I feel hurt and pain times a million, all the time.

Nothing scares me. Nothing actually shocks me anymore.

What's perplexing to me is that I never think it's anybody's business to know my business.

I'm from downtown New Orleans. Downtown consists of the 7th ward, the 8th ward, the 9th ward.

Pride definitely causes a lack of communication.

When I started singing, I was going to school. I remember some of the people in school singing, and they had a choir. I would just watch and listen. Finally I started at least attempting to try to do what they was doing. When I was younger, we started going to church. I can't say that we were always, you know, the most church-going people.

I always had a love for music, but I was watching 'Sister Act 2' with Lauryn Hill, and I heard her sing, and I was just like, 'Man, I want to do that.' The whole movie overall was an inspiration for me.

Take good care of yourself. Your life can be gone in a split second.

I'm pretty expressive. And when I love something or love someone, I express that.

I feel older than I really am. It's because of the cards I was dealt.

When I do music, I'm really getting the devil up off me.

Every lesson man, every, every relationship, every experience is a blessing. You learn from it, whether good or bad.

I never want to be the one causing a ruckus. I never want to be problematic in any kind of way.

We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music.

The people that you think are supposed to be there for you and be happy for you - instead they want to tear you down.

Nothing is held back on 'Testimony.'

My legacy is that I will hustle and grind. No one will stop me from hustling. I'll be where God wants me to be.

Of all my childhood memories, I don't have any good ones.

Some days I'm up, some days I'm down. But I think one thing that does get you moving is hope.

I'm not a rapper. I stay in my lane.

So many times we take things like eyesight for granted cause it's so natural. We wake up and we see, we wake up and we walk. It's just so natural for us. So, for me not to be able to see for 2-3 days straight, it was hell.

I know how people see me. People see me as a rebel. People see me as maybe even ignorant. People see me as a threat or rude or whatever. It's a lot of people who just don't know me.

We live in a crazy world. You don't know what's going to happen.