Quotes from PartyNextDoor

I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

I treat my vocals as an instrument.

I was like, 'Okay, cool, I'ma learn how to produce my own beats,' and I stuck to it. Now, it's hard to even take a beat from anyone else.

I'll make a whole bunch of beats whenever, but unless I'm living through something or have a female in mind, or have a conversation in my phone I could scroll through, I'm not making music.

I love music but I never went to a concert in my life. The first time I went to a concert I performed on a stage with Drake.

I make 99 percent of my music sitting down, in boxers, when I'm comfortable in my computer chair.

Of course I want to be a superstar, but it doesn't happen overnight, and I see that from having a mentor.

In the beginning it was definitely Drake, Kanye and Lil Wayne - those were my influences. But having worked with all those three individually, I'm now appreciating my own individuality.

I'm all about colors.

My first tape was 'Hey, I can do what y'all do.' It's new, flashy, and not through rap. It was a guy singing how cool he was. I'm here with big bro Drake; I'm his little gunner.

My mother didn't listen to my first tape, or my second one.

I'll take a shot of vodka if I want it to be raspy... I tell whoever's in the studio to get boiling hot water, like super boiling, that they're afraid to give it to me. I put it exactly on the back of my tongue to shock my body. That cleans it up.

I'll flip samples where one's a completely dark song and the next one is a complete sexual song. People think my whole thing is a dark thing, but I don't.

I'm glad I'm with OVO; it's a dream come true.

I know myself, I'm learning myself. I'm growing, I'm maturing.

I look into people's eyes and I know they think I'm a bad guy.

I would never call myself mysterious. The word I use is 'private.'

The best advice Drake's given anybody is to know yourself. It's the most important thing to live by.

I'm going to make the music I make regardless and it's always going to be driven by rhythm and blues and hopefully it becomes popular. But I don't cater to, like, 'OK, I want to make music that's going to fit in this pop world or go on the charts, etcetera, etcetera.' Hopefully, enough people like it so it becomes popular.

When I'm home, I try to relax, but I still make music.

I could make a PartyNextDoor album that's clean, all hits. That's not what I care about doing.

I think too much, which is a blessing and a curse.

First time I met Drake was 2012 at a studio in Toronto.

There should be more love in Toronto when it comes to the music and entertainment scenes instead of keeping that Screwface Capital name. There should be more artists eating together, more artists celebrating together and more artists making music together. That's how I feel.