Quotes from Tyga

I'm just not a messy person... I don't look for pleasure in social media.

Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful.

You go to Miami, and you might only hear one Tyga song on the radio. You go to L.A., and you might hear six or seven on the radio. There's certain things you do for your city.

I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters.

I only like people to know what I want them to know. People didn't know what Tupac was doing. That's why he was so iconic.

[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.

That's how you become successful, man - you gotta stay busy.

There are so many artists that inspire me, it's honestly too many names to go through. I look up to people who've been in the game for years.

The best career advice I've gotten is to stay focused, keep moving forward.

I think whenever you're around Kanye, you gotta take notes. The advice is taking notes, because everything he does and everything he says is very detailed and very up front. He's always one hundred what he says.

I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It's all I wanted to do; I didn't want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music.

I'm making music that I love and I want to hear. At the same time, things like making money, making crazy money - you gotta find ways to reach to everybody but uplift everybody.

At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. And I have the right to say what I want on my music 'cause it's my music. If you don't like it, don't click on it, don't download it.

I never grew up in the Valley. I lived in Compton/Gardena my whole life.

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality.

Even though Prince wasn't rapping and it was a whole different era, it shows how artists expressed themselves without saying too much, and that was the real beauty of the art.

As far as business moguls, I'm always a fan of how Jay Z moves. He was just always very strategic ever since he came into the game.

If you fight like a married couple, talk like bestfriends, flirt like first lovers, protect each other like siblings, you're meant to be.

I had faith that music would be able to take me somewhere. I didn't know where. I just was like, 'Keep having faith, and any doors that open, I'll walk through them and see what happens from there.'

You cannot have a better tomorrow if you're still thinking about yesterday's problems.

Instead of wiping away your tears, wipe the people who make you cry.

Smile in ya face, but everybody fake.