Earl Sweatshirt

“My world is kind of small.”

“I'm just, like, really about not lying to myself.”

“At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.”

“Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.”

“Everything when you're a teenager is a projection. Or at least, for me, it was. 'Who am I gonna be?'”

“Toronto is like a city of grandmas.”

“People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.”

“Rapping is the only time I'm serious.”

“Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.”

“It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.”

“One day I hope to not have a Twitter, to be sick enough that I don't have to use the Internet.”

“I didn't have a dad coming up. I didn't have someone to be scared of.”

“Throughout 'Doris,' and while I was recording it, you could hear I was apprehensive towards everything. I can't explain it. It wasn't fun; it was like I had to do it.”

“I always enjoyed being made uneasy, and I was into anything that was off-putting. I can't exactly put my finger on why, but it always seemed more exciting than those things that made you feel comfortable.”

“All rappers are princesses like me.”

“I've read some pretty harsh criticisms of my music, but some of them I agreed with and actually sat with me.”

“You can't really start living until you can live with yourself.”

“I'm not a person that garners a whole lot of attention.”

“A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don't know what I'm talking about because the words are too much, and it's overwhelming.”

“Both of my parents had me reading at a really young age. Maybe it was a hereditary thing, but my mom always had my nose in a book. I've always been a bookworm.”