Quotes About Authenticity

I like the purity of telling stories now because not a lot of people are telling stories in their music. I wanna tell my specific story: what I see right now.

Guys in our sport bump their gums quite a bit, and they get you to think they're these huge tough guys... they're these gangsters, that they'll fight anybody, anytime. And then when you get in front of a person like me... the crickets start to come out. They don't really wanna fight.

The perfect date is real simple. I wanna just spend a nice casual day walking in the park, playing on the swings... throwing bread crumbs to the ducks, really just chilling and getting to know each other and connecting with the real woman.

I think I always wanna write comedy because that's what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so that's what I want to reproduce.

I just always make honest music. I just always kinda do what I wanna do.

I wanna be as transparent as possible. I'm not a serious guy.

Something that I don't normally tell, and it's not necessarily because I wanna keep it from anybody - I just don't think about it - but one thing about me that not a whole lot of people know and that never really gets brought up is that I actually don't have a driver's license. I've never taken a driver's test.

Instagram is great but I'm not an amazing photographer and I don't wanna post selfies constantly.

So I got a lot of music because it's all different. I'm not just one side. I wanna show you the good, the bad, and the ugly. I wanna be as truthful as I can because I love music.

I get a lot of really nice messages from girls who are like, 'You make me wanna be myself because people accept it.'

As a musician, I don't wanna put out political soundbites.

Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive.

I don't wanna be like somebody that just depicts black characters where drugs and guns are just a majority of what they have to do.

People like me for who I am, I don't wanna change that, if anything I just wanna hone my craft and get better at it.

I don't want to be Boogie. I just wanna be DeMarcus.

I don't wanna go full mainstream and have my followers go 'What happened?'

I definitely don't wanna be known as the 'Up Down' guy. I love singing that song, I love that song, but yeah, there's definitely more to me than just a party for sure.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

I wanna keep rapping, I intend to. It's good to mix it up, but I'm still gonna stay true to rapping.

I wanna be myself and be the first Jason Jordan. I don't wanna be the second Kurt Angle.

I put so much online, and my heart is the only thing I don't wanna - my heart, I need to myself.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.