Quotes from Theophilus London

While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.

What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing whats next and not following the trend of whats now.

I don't want to be easily defined.

I feel I have so much more to deliver than music.

I understand demographics.

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

Some people thought Theophilus was a fake name. Whatever.

I'm on the sockless and un-sockless teams. I'm on both sides.

I like connecting with people through technology.

There were times when I was just listening to albums for the hype of it. Some albums, I would just put it on in my car, and me and my friends would just drive, that we'd wild out to, get arrested to.

Style is a form of expression! It's what makes your character your character, to put it in laymen's term.

When I say 'rare,' it's my own term. It's like you're doing something with a photo that is dominant that no one has ever seen before. #Rare means that it can only be seen here. It's just a rare moment that I'm sharing with the world.

I always tell myself, 'When I'm working on my record, I won't cut my hair.' I get so focused on the music that I'm not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can't really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says.

Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think.

Shopping at any level is a bit of therapy for my medulla oblongata.

Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.

I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!

It's not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.

I'm not on a record like some rapper trying to boast about my clothes or where I'm from. I'm creating stories, experiences, the way places make me feel, the way a person makes me feel.

I love to see the rarest movies, the most talked-about movies and documentaries. I read all the reviews and compare them to see if it's worth going! I have a secret movie critic blog I have shown no one or promoted, and I intend to keep it that way.

Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.