Mac Miller

“Fear, to me, is a guiding thing more than anything.”

“Performing 60,000 people, that's easy. The energy's already there. They're already doing most of the work. All you gotta do is not forget the words - and feed them energy, too.”

“'Cruise Control' was the first track me and Wiz Khalifa ever did. I made the beat on that, and I played guitar on it.”

“I'm gonna make music, and I'm gonna capture every aspect of being a human being. That's really all I'm trying to do. I think that artists and pop culture identities are used to simplify what it means to be a human and pigeon-hole people into looking up to one role model.”

“I think, a lot of times, people just want to be cool, and to be in love is not cool. But I think it's the coolest. I think love is the coolest thing that there is.”

“I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.”

“I never watched 'Cheers,' actually.”

“Doing DJ sets is like - is difficult to me. Cause you have to find that happy medium of playing what the crowd wants and what you want.”

“I just have always felt as long as I'm 100 percent honest, then it's just me. It's a lot easier to sleep at night that way.”

“To me, women have always been the sturdiest people in my life and have been incredible sources of energy.”

“There's a lot of beauty in the world, so go hang out and go be a part of the solution rather than the problem.”

“I like to enjoy good music. I like Michael Jackson; I don't care who wrote the songs.”

“I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.”

“When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.”

“When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you've been suppressing it forever. It's so much easier to navigate what's important.”

“Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.”

“Being famous used to just defeat me. I wouldn't leave my house because I was worried about someone being like, 'Oh, are you Mac Miller?' and then the rest of the night I couldn't be myself.”

“When I was a kid, this was always my dream: to live in New York.”

“I don't want to go on tour and have everyone just sitting there waiting for one song.”

“Singing, to me, just feels really vulnerable.”