Quotes from G-Eazy

Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That's all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy.

A halfway decent haircut will go a long way!

My music is very reminiscent of the sound I grew up on and the place where that happened. It's a combination of everything I'm inspired by.

What's weird is the Hot Boys and the whole New Orleans Cash Money thing had a really big impact on the Bay when that was popping off. I don't all the way understand it. I mean, I know that they were big everywhere and had a lot of commercial success in the mid to late '90s, but they were really, really felt in the Bay Area.

What costs the world to you as a working kid fresh out of college costs nothing to you as a successful musician.

For whatever reason, it's easier to perform in front of a massive crowd than in front of a small one, but again, that's how we came up.

I played shows in front of like 25, 50 people, and it's a lot harder to do your thing in front of a crowd that's small.

I've never been critically acclaimed. I've never been nominated for no Grammy. I've never been on no magazine cover. It's almost taboo to say I'm actually good.

If you're not out living, then you've got nothing to talk about.

The gatekeepers don't control the gates, and the powers that be aren't as powerful.

As we've added players to the team, like a videographer, a drummer, or a sound guy, we're trying to keep a bus full of A players and keep a culture where everybody is comfortable enough to push each other in their areas to be great.

I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.

I used to go and cop stacks of blanks CDs and sit there and burn copies of my mixtapes and print up my own mixtape covers and post up in downtown Oakland and Telegraph in Berkeley and literally was selling my mixtapes for five bucks, hand-to-hand.

I think every artist's next work will reflect a new chapter in their autobiography. Each album tells a story about where they were at during a particular period and how they have evolved.

What I actually do put much more weight on, in all honesty, is not being critically acclaimed - it's being respected by my OGs. When I talk to E-40 on the phone, every time I talk to him, I'm like, you know, if he tells me I'm doing good, I'm doing good.

I love being in a room in front of an audience who cares about the music, who knows the music, and who has lived with the music. It's kind of like an experience you share. I'm on stage performing it, but they're singing the words, too.

I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.

I would never consider myself a role model in the wide sense of the word.

I remember, when I was ten, I wanted to look like Em. I had the bleached blonde hair.

That's the nature of this business. Something that took ten years to make can crumble in an instant. It could be snatched away from you at any moment.

When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.

I've seen what you can do in this grassroots, do-it-yourself world, and I've seen how far that can get you. To be iconic, you still need the gatekeepers to open the doors.

When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.