Quotes from Kevin Abstract

I'm never going to search for anyone's acceptance. I'm just going to be me, and people are eventually going to have to accept it.

I think it's awesome when you meet someone that can kind of just get you 110 percent, and no matter how long that lasts, you kind of just take it for what it is and embrace it.

I just always wanted to be part of something where I felt like I belonged.

I think we're always scared, but we have each other to lean on, so we're not being extremely vulnerable in front of the world by ourselves. We have each other.

I wanted to blend in 'cause I knew I was different.

When you're bored, you get creative.

I just want people to be able to put on 'American Boyfriend' and accept to not know. To not know anything about everything.

When you mention Bieber, Lorde, One Direction, I want to be on that list. But at the same time, when you say Lil Uzi Vert, I want my name to pop up, too. I'm kinda in between both. I wanna bring them together and exist.

I'm super inspired by Master P and early moguls. They were doing everything. I wanna do that, too. Twenty-six albums in one year. It's possible. Very possible.

I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.

I want to give black kids a new superhero.

Most of the time, with artists like me who go on to become superstars, you never see them when they are still lost and trying to figure life out.

I'm always around creative people, and I'm trying to work on something constantly at all times.

As soon as I left Georgia, my narrative became about taking risks and the fight for creative bedroom artists with no platform.

I don't want to be that artist who's doing the teenage angst thing and draw it out my whole career.

A lot of my music is about self-discovery because I focus on my teenage years.

I wrote 'Echo' a few months after moving out of my sister's apartment in Atlanta. I was 17 and just finished high school. I didn't go to prom and didn't walk the stage. I just dipped.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

The biggest pop star in the world shouldn't be a boring white kid from Canada - the biggest pop star in the world should be a creative black kid from Texas that doesn't know how to come out to his family - that's a way more interesting story, and it gives a new type of kid some hope.

In order to make a change, I have to exist in a traditionally homophobic space such as hip-hop. If I were to just be this queer rapper who only spoke to queer kids... I don't think I could as effectively make a change for another young, black, queer kid growing up in Texas.

I don't want to be a queer icon. I want to be an icon.

Me just existing and being myself is making change and making things easier for other young queer kids. I want to be me and express that and break new ground along the way.

I think cliche is a good thing sometimes.

I think the most important part of the teenage years is wondering.