Quotes from Thundercat

I feel like I try to write from an honest of a place as I can - without scaring people off too much, I guess.

Singing and playing live can be difficult. Like, in the studio, I would record either the music track first or the vocal first. I don't necessarily do them together.

I personally didn't realize people would enjoy my voice, I guess. I'm happy that they do, but I didn't know what to expect.

I can fall asleep in the shower without drowning.

Why do we think the '70s were so awesome? That 'freeness' of music was there.

Azealia Banks - love what she's doing.

I started taking the bass more seriously when I heard Jaco Pastorius.

I've paid attention to guys growin' up like Richard Pryor or Paul Mooney. The message that they were sending with what they did was so much bigger than them.

I'm not Beyonce or Trey Songz or anything, so every now and again, I feel a little like, 'Are they listening to me, or am I just sounding crazy singing to myself?' I feel like that sometimes.

As a working musician, your first instinct is to try and do your job. It wasn't always my aspiration to sing; I just wanted to be a great working musician. But then Flying Lotus suggested I try, and nothing has ever been the same since.

I'm so tired of cell phones.

I really love my cat.

I'll look at superheroes and comics and stuff and wonder, 'Why wouldn't you dress like that if you could?' With fashion, I look at it as a way to express that. I don't really pull any punches on it; otherwise, you get caught up in this nexus of dressing like everyone else.

You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch, but the best crutch I could have.

It feels nice to be able to call Brainfeeder my home. It's giving art the platform. That's what Brainfeeder has always been for me: hope for art.

Yeah, I'd like to collaborate with God. Do a collaboration with God!

That's always what I've tried to do. I've tried to communicate. But at the end of the day, it's still for you to understand something. Understand that the world is bigger than you.

If somebody can make a joke about you on TV, that's so beautiful. You've affected pop culture to that degree.

You know what? Drake is one of my favorite artists, not just because it's, like, the cool thing to say.

Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.

Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.

I was playing bass when I was a kid; I play bass now. I used to draw pictures when I was a kid, and I draw pictures now. I talked backwards and weird when I was a kid, and I talk backwards now.

I've never been called the black sheep. Everybody in my family had something weird about them, like, 'What's wrong with you?!' We all were black sheep.

I actually went to an arts middle school with Shia LaBeouf, but even there, I was one of the weirder kids.