Quotes from G-Eazy

Me personally, I'm real close to my mom. She raised me. It was a single-parent home situation. She did everything: cooked, worked two jobs, came home late, but she loved me to death.

Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.

Music is only special when it's coming from a genuine place - it's just energy trapped in a bottle.

Music is one of the toughest industries, so I respect everybody who has travelled any distance, come far in this music business and achieved anything because it is so hard, and there are so many people out there these days.

It's one thing to turn up and jump around stage and give people a good time - that's obviously a big part of this - but I'll always get deeper than that as an artist.

I just hear a beat and start mumbling words. I just hear sounds and rhythms, and it just kind of comes intuitively. Formatting a song, figuring out a flow, how I respond to the beat.

I wanted to make an album that plays from the top to bottom and feels together and complete. That's just something that felt important.

I grew up watching Kobe Bryant.

You'd die very sad if you tried to make everyone in the world happy, you know what I mean? You can't; no one can.

I thought everybody unanimously hated this man. I don't know anyone who was like, 'Go Trump.' I was surprised.

When you're around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.

It's an honor to be able to tour with somebody I grew up listening to and somebody I look up to. When you're around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.

I'm not inherently the most politically or, like, socially conscious rapper, you know? You're not just going to wake up tomorrow and be Common.

I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.

The thing is, I've always wanted to be a star. I've always wanted to be an Elvis Presley or a Tupac - like, a huge icon.

It's our approach to treat each show like an arena show. We over-invest in production to make the stage look bigger, turning the show into an experience and not just somebody standing around with a microphone rapping.

When you're making an album, it's, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it.

I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

I think being a rock star is a little bit different than being an athlete or even a movie star.

I've never fit in anywhere in my life. Ever.

Whenever I can squeeze it in, I'm writing and recording.

When you're literally staring at the person right in front of you, you're connecting with them on a personal level. I even jump into the crowd sometimes and perform with them, sing into the mic with them and share the experience with them.

We listen to oldies when we go on tour. Beach Boys radio was really clutch; that was definitely our favorite Pandora station.