Quotes from G-Eazy

We used to approach a small 400-person show like an arena show, as if I was a star and I was coming out on stage in front of screaming people and that I was to be larger than life.

I grew up in Oakland, California, and there was a really active scene in the Bay Area. Everyone else knew it as the 'Hyphy Movement' of Mac Dre, E-40, and The Pack.

Albums serve as paragraphs in an artist's autobiography.

The Bay area made me who I am, and it only felt right to go back there.

Being in a position to bring people together like we do is a beautiful thing.

I'm just making music, and I'm paying my bills.

My friends put me on to Mobb Deep when I was a little kid. I've always been a big fan.

When you use a sample in a big way, when you loop something in the way I did with 'Runaround Sue,' it's like you have your chords and your melody and the quality of the song right there before you add your own production. It's like the song is already made, in a sense.

Me personally, I will always be a fan at the end of the day. No matter how big this gets, I still look up to other artists and people I respect creatively.

I fell in love with hip-hop at an early age as a culture, as a sound, both from the perspective of a fan and a creative outlet.

I hate picking out clothes.

If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does.

If we're deciding about merch pieces, t-shirts or hats, they have to be well designed and cool enough for somebody to want to buy it and then wear it and walk around advertising me and my music.

I wanna put numbers on the board. And the thing that everybody doesn't get is that it just doesn't happen. It doesn't just fall out of the air and land on your lap; the only way to get it is to get it and put the work in.

Some people will like it. Some people will hate it. Some people are indifferent. And you have to live with that as an artist. You wanna be appreciated, you wanna be liked, but you know, it's just not realistic for everyone.

New money is something fun to celebrate if you never had it.

Growing up, I heard as much E-40 and Mac Dre on the radio as I did 50 Cent. It's in our culture to support our own.

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

I think it's important to say something. If you're making music it's kinda' like, oh, cool, so is everyone else.

In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen.

The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.

I've matured as a person and so has the music... It's gotten more sophisticated and interesting I think.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.