Quotes from Young Thug

I've always been a sharing person.

You have to be yourself.

I don't ever want to be like a peasant. I want to always be all right. But motivation is fans - not your kids, your mum, none of that. All of that matters, but number one is your fans.

Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.

I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.

I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me like that. So I'm gonna just use my real name.

We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

I'm always in range of a microphone. I even have a studio at home.

Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.

I only listen to Lil Wayne.

I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.

I'm signed to Atlantic through 300 Entertainment [Lyor Cohen's label]. That is my only contractual relationship.

It's dangerous to be anybody popular.

I feel close to [Kanye West]. We're friends, this is not just a working relationship.

I am not versed in production software. I have basic knowledge, but it ends there.

My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.

For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid.

Whatever I think of, that's what I do. I wake up and think, 'I want to buy a car', I buy a car. I wake up and be like, 'I just want to lay in bed with my girl', I do that. I wake up and want to rap, I rap. So whatever I think of.

When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.

I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age. By the time I turn that old, I ain't gonna be doing what he's doing.

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life.

I know, every time I get somewhere, it'll be strange. But if I understand correctly, I also have fans here and it reassures me.