Quotes from G-Eazy

I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.

We're really critical with the process of who we hire. But when you put great people in position, that's how you avoid any missteps.

You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.

I think any time you're at the end of a trip you're usually pretty ready to come home and start working regularly again.

I grew up with the Pack. When they released 'Vans,' it was a seeing-is-believing moment.

It's on the people to dictate what is relevant and what is moving.

I think my music is so personal that it lets people in. And they identify with me more because of that, you know, so it's like my story; it's who I am as a person.

In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I'm really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I'm able to communicate directly with them.

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

There's only so much you can do on a physical level trying to tour or pass out mixtapes. Although that matters, I realized that you can reach more people putting your music on Soundcloud and networking with blogs to write about you. It really comes back to the music and what you release.

Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.

I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.

I think if you're constantly reinvesting into your content and giving the fans stuff, then you can continue to tour. You can continue to sell the merch and monetize the popularity of the brand.

I love the road. The closest thing to home, for me, is being on a tour bus, ironically.

Touring is a tough plane to get off the ground, and it takes a lot of hard work and a lot of investments.

Touring is starting to feel more like home than home does.

You open up a lot of tours making nothing just for the fact that you need to start somewhere and get some exposure. When you start to headline your tours, all the money is in headlining, but there's no money in headlining small rooms.

When I sample something, it's just me drawing from what I'm actually into. It's whatever sounds like a good track.

I've definitely grown and evolved as a person, as an artist, you know. Just in terms of my style, my taste, my influences, everything... That's a part of being an artist I think.

I just have more Yves Saint Laurent in my closet, but it is pretty much the same - I just wear black almost 365 days of the year. I am married to it.

'Downtown Love.' I made that with one of my homies in New Orleans. The story is tragic, and the song is emotional. It's my favorite. I'm most proud of that; it's such a creative piece.

I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.

My mom was a single parent.