A biography for Flying Lotushasn’t been written yet.
“In high school, I was that guy who was trying to be cool with everybody, but I never really had a core group of friends.”
“Kendrick is a true genius artist.”
“Before I started Brainfeeder, there were rumblings in our own circle about creating a label for us all. Then I started to see all these other ones from Europe try to capitalise on the scene. It didn't make sense to me that there were all these people who were trying to build on something that was in our backyard.”
“When I made '1983,' there were a bunch of tracks that were in the early drafts that didn't make it because they just sounded like tracks for rappers, and that's not really the sound I look for when I produce my own albums.”
“I am a big cinema nerd! I've absorbed a lot of films.”
“We're all trying so hard to be beautiful, but the people in 'Kuso' are trying so hard to be disgusting.”
“The first beat that I ever made that I thought was actually worth a damn was called 'Toilet Paper Nostrils,' and I made it when I had a cold. I had the worst cold ever. And I had toilet-paper nostrils making music, but it was really reflective of how I felt. It was a really sad trumpet sound.”
“I found so many reasons to call it 'You're Dead!' - not just because I wanted to make this album about the journey through death. I was watching the music scene that I came up with kind of go stale and watching the lights go out on a lot of my friends.”
“I'm really grateful for all of the things I've had to learn along the way, you know? I don't know if I would want to say anything to my younger self. That way, you know, it really means something. If you have to go through it all, it really means something.”
“I'm always seeing stuff and imagining scenes in my head when I'm making music.”
“Whenever I am making stuff, I got a thing in the back of my mind: 'Oh, this would be so perfect for' whoever.”
“I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I'm forced to be creative.”
“I was 10 years old when the Northridge quake happened, and I lived right in the area, so it was a traumatic thing for me. I'd never had anything like that happen before. It's always stuck with me.”
“I'm a silly guy.”
“I love 'Pop Team Epic,' which is really trippy.”
“I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums.”
“I feel like my music has a reputation for being pretty serious or whatnot, but I like having fun.”
“Before saying, 'This track is so dope; it's gonna go on the album,' I like to take some time away from it and see how I feel about it in a few months. If it's gonna get released, I gotta love it - it's gonna have my name on it forever.”
“There are things I've seen and experienced in this world - things they don't talk about in too many books.”
“Truth be told, I think jazz is a mind-set. It's not necessarily, like, this guy picked up a horn and did this or whatever.”