Caleb McLaughlin

“It's funny, a lot of people when they ask me do I do music, they think I'm a rapper. I tell them 'yeah,' and then I make up a name... It's a total lie, I'm not a rapper, I can't rap for my life.”

“I learn from everybody that I'm around.”

“I always grew up around music, my parents and their love of music.”

“Black people are the original cowboys and cowgirls.”

“I don't really go out there and buy things for myself that I really want. I buy things that I need.”

“Not everyone is the same, not everyone's perfect.”

“I've always played young my whole life.”

“No one really knows what the Upside Down is, we just know what comes from it, like Demagorgons and like the Mind Flayer, but the Upside Down is an alternate dimension of our world.”

“I really put my feet into my music, I have a say in how I want my music to sound and where I want it to go which is great.”

“My dad has been here from the beginning.”

“I mean, you never want to get your hopes up in the business.”

“I got on 'Stranger Things' and it's this amazing show and I got that big break.”

“I'm not even famous. Famous is when you're iconic and a legend, I'm just known.”

“I'm not in competition with anyone but myself, and I think once I know I work hard enough for myself and I know I put my all into everything, then that's my goal. That's what I want to reach.”

“It took me a while to get where I am now. What people really think is it happened overnight - it didn't. It took a few years and discipline.”

“I'm like, I'm not a legend or an icon. I'm just an actor.”

“I don't like rehearsing much, depending on the scene. I like to understand the moment and the feeling of where I'm at.”

“Before Stranger Things, before I was able to travel around the world, I lived in my own world in small-town Carmel, New York.”

“I'll never stop wanting to learn.”

“I want to produce my own films, TV shows, maybe direct in the future.”