Quotes from Earl Sweatshirt

I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.

Both of my parents had me reading at a really young age. Maybe it was a hereditary thing, but my mom always had my nose in a book. I've always been a bookworm.

My world is kind of small.

People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.

Black Lives Matter has already demonstrated that it has the power to shift the societal landscape by bringing awareness to age-old issues that have plagued us as a people.

Drake loves moms.

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.

I always enjoyed being made uneasy, and I was into anything that was off-putting. I can't exactly put my finger on why, but it always seemed more exciting than those things that made you feel comfortable.

You can't really start living until you can live with yourself.

My beats are pretty s - - y, though. I don't know how they work.

Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.

At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

I'm just, like, really about not lying to myself.

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.