Quotes About Artistry

9/11 is probably the main reason I didn't release an album for five years.

I sometimes feel I want to release an album without people knowing it is me.

If two-three films of mine release at the same time and if all of them feel like they are from the same lyricist then something is not quite right. The language of all has to be different if they are different stories.

You're never going to release the next album and have it be different from your other two, three, four, five albums. People give them a hard time, but it's like, 'I'm an artist, I'm trying to grow. I don't want to have the same album for 10 albums in a row!' Same thing for a martial artist.

In Hindi film industry, the maximum one can do is try and make a film like 'Badhaai Ho' or 'Andhadhun,' but if I want to make something of the level of 'Kanchivaram' it is impossible. If I will make that kind a film, it will have no traction.

I feel like, a lot of times, you make music, and you don't really understand why until with hindsight.

Art is made in hindsight.

Somebody once asked me, 'What do you do?' and I flippantly answered 'I'm a cultural engineer.' With hindsight, I kind of am - but if I got too self-conscious about it, it wouldn't work.

Sometimes a song that didn't make one record will stay in my head for so long and just won't go away. I take that as a hint to keep 'em close and not forget about them.

I just don't think many people would have crossed the street to hear me doing a hip hop-influenced album!

I'm not hip-hop.

One of my favorite hip-hop artists is Makonnen. One of my favorite bands is Fall Out Boy. You put those two together, and that's Lil Peep.

As hip-hop artists, you have to take the music seriously, not just as a way to get rich.

I'm trying to make music that I like, and I love hip-hop. At the same time, I love guitar. I love rock and everything.

For me, hip-hop's not about the bling.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

We went through an era of big dance records, an era of hip-hop being the biggest thing on the planet. The people who really break through are the people who are not afraid to express themselves in how they feel.

I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.

I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.

You've got these guys that have this fresh, street, hip-hop country that sells a zillion. Keep doing that. I'll keep doing my stuff. We'll see how it goes.

Forever, for me, it was just about trying to make it and become a known person and loved and revered in hip-hop and the culture. But then ,I even realized that that isn't really important. What's mainly important is just the fans and the connection that you have as a man and an artist.

I grew up hip-hop dancing; I've always wanted to create music that I could dance to.

Hip-hop has always been about keeping it authentic and being authentically you. That is what I try to do in my music and when I speak about the Bible.

I admire hip-hop artists because they drop so much music.