Quotes from Drake

My life is mine to remember.

I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would stop and say, 'Oh, that's the hook right there,' I'll move that to the first four bars of the verse and do a new hook.

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill.

These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position.

I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money.

You love me and I love you, your heart hurts ... well mine does too.

When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

But dear, don't be afraid of love it's only magic.

Loving you no more, I just I can't I just can't be loving you no more, I love you more than I love myself

There are a lot of good women in New York.

I am what everybody in my past don't want me to be

I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.

Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I'm sober and I'm lifted/ Somewhere between a mistress and commitment

All the care I would take, all the love that we made.. Now you trying to find somebody to replace what I gave to ya

We live in a generation of not being in love and not being together But we sure make it feel like we're together. Cause we're scared to see each other with somebody else

Girl they love me like I'm Prince, like the new kid with the crown. Bunch of underground kings, thought you knew how we get down.

Baby she look like a star, but only on camera, only on camera, only on camera.

Ready for us to get it on, aint got a love to call steady.. Hope it aint like that for long, I'll be your friend if you let me

Rappers are emotional. Critics be reviewin me. But I got love for everybody even if you're suin me.

My city love me like Mac Dre in the Bay

I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny.