Quotes from Masego

I don't want to create music or do a partnership because of the money. I don't want to be money-influenced.

I like how hip-hop is just shocking and fun.

I don't watch the news too much, and I don't look too deep into bad news about artists.

I'm going to be the first person to do every creative idea he's ever had in his head.

I listened to gospel music because that was just our culture, you know? My parents are pastors.

It's really easy to hide in metaphor or hide in a solo or instrumentation, but when you're saying explicitly this is how I feel it's a bit different - it makes you a more vulnerable person.

I've always loved fashion, but when you're broke, you're wearing whatever your dad gave you.

In college, this cheerleader put me on to this artist called Kimbra, and that was huge to me because that's the first time I saw somebody looping. She sampled her voice and made a song with that, and that just blew my mind.

If you're really chosen for music, it just comes to you and you just let it pass through. That's how I create.

I'm an athlete. I play basketball and football and all that with a bunch of other men, but that doesn't impact me emotionally.

With 'Pink Polo,' I wanted something I could listen to when I was doing different activities during the summer and also bring a message in it.

I'm black so I've been getting eyed by cops my whole life.

I think for the culture I gotta collaborate with Pharrell. He's from my area, that'd be amazing - what he would pull out of creatively.

The West Coast really allows you to understand who you are. You come across so many talented people you have to look back at yourself and see what makes you unique.

I do old man things by default, just stay in the hotel room, eat oatmeal, and drink tea.

I'm Jamaican, so I come from a very whip with two belts background - being sensitive isn't really part of my culture.

Everyone communicates with music in a different way. With some people, if there's not sheet music, they're not playing it.

My mother had this huge binder of CDs from everyone she loved, like progressive gospel artists. You know, she loved like how Yolanda Adams was kind of R&B, but it was, like, still gospel.

When things line up, the music just flows.

I started playing sax when I was fourteen because I'm like a real competitive person when it comes to winning girls attention. And there was this girl that I really wanted the attention of and I found out she really liked jazz.

I remember I was a freshman in high school the first time I heard OutKast.

I love nature and botanical gardens.

Every time I have a conversation with a woman, I gleam something from it.

When I don't know all the rules, I just break them all. And it becomes like a higher level of music because of that.