Quotes from Lil Durk

I'm my own boss, you know?

You've got Lil Uzi Vert - you do a song with him, you ain't doing nothing but gaining new fans. You gotta keep up with the time and the pace.

Certain parts are bad in every city, but Chicago is beautiful.

My thing is to get new fans. So I love when people say, 'Oh, I've heard of him before.' Or 'I've never heard of Durk.' Or 'I'm a fan of Durk today.' This is what I like to see, because it lets me know when I come out with something that it's going to work.

I'm happy with the person I become.

I can buy anything I want now. It hasn't changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.

When I do shows, I take pictures and make the fans feel like family. All of that really matters. That's the cheat code if you ain't got a hit.

I wanna get the streets riled back up. I wanna get super tours and bookings.

Atlanta is just different. It's the music city.

I like aiming for the producers who are hungry. I don't chase the wave.

It's either you finna create your own wave, you finna sound like me or you finna sound like G Herbo, you finna sound like Chance The Rapper, you finna sound like Juice Wrld. You ain't gonna get too far 'cause you sound like somebody. So, create your own lane and do your own style.

It feels good to be in a place now where I can give back to my community.

Death can happen anywhere, but kids in Chicago, like 4 years old, can get shot. You don't really hear that in too many places.

See what I do is I book a studio that's closed down and I go by myself. No one's in there, literally just me and the engineer.

I'll never stick to one sound, I switch it up.

You got to want to evolve. It's something you can practice on but it just came to me. I wasn't really sitting there like, 'What can I do to get better?' It just came to me, talking to my people and my crew. They just tell me what my strongest and weakest points are at.

When I began to rap, I wasn't taking it real serious. As I start seeing good things, it's getting serious.

I let my team pick what order the records go. I don't pick my own records. I'm a fan of my music regardless so you have to think outside of the box.

I just wanted to speak to the streets and give them motivation on making it out. Whatever situation they're in, know that they can make do and have a better life.

I'm really living my dream so if I were to change anything up, I probably wouldn't be where I am.

I gotta stay in that light where people will see me and hear me. And not be scared of me, you know?

I use the studio as my drug. That's where I relieve everything at - the studio.

When you in the studio you don't need everybody calling your phone telling you about what's going on outside the studio. I don't need those distractions.

I grew as an artist and a person. I'm just ready to work, get this money, get this new fan base and tour all over the world.