Kevin Gates

“Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I'm a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don't notice.”

“I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project - 'There's One In Every Family,' 'Street Life' - I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, 'cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.”

“When you're in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.”

“I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.”

“I've just always been a reader.”

“I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner.”

“I don't know how the rap game is, because I'm a fan of reality, and the rap game's entertainment.”

“I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.”

“I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.”

“I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.”

“I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control.”

“My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.”

“I attended college in prison. I was in jail, so there ain't no going to no classes. They have programs in certain facilities where you can earn good time, and then you get time taken off your sentence. But as far as going to classes, it's not like that. You study, and then an administrator gives you a test. I got a Master's in psychology.”

“I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I'm in.”

“I'm glad I can't vote.”

“I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.”

“Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.”

“I don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.”

“One of my most popular songs, 'Satellites,' I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.”

“Man, all lives matter.”