Machine Gun Kelly

“Everything I stood for, forever, since the beginning of time, has been about seeing people as humans. Not as man, woman, white, Hispanic, any of that stuff.”

“I'm not one of those acts where it's, like, this mainstream person, where the average white kid at Harvard University is like, 'It's educational tonight. Let's all go out there and spend Dad's money.'”

“There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.”

“I'm very personal with my music, and it takes a piece of your heart away every time you record that in the studio. So you only have so many pieces of your heart to give away.”

“I've always been a fan of the Club C sneaker because it's super clean and timeless. It's one of those kicks that's been in the street scene forever - more than 30 years.”

“I knew so many people were coming up to me because they knew who I was, not because they were fans of my music. That bothered me because I don't want to be a celebrity; I want to be an artist.”

“I write all my hooks.”

“I recognize fans at every show.”

“Not everyone wants to be in misery in every song!”

“As far as I'm concerned, I don't really care anymore what people think about me. I'm just gonna be me.”

“Every night, we put on shows that are deteriorating our bodies' life span... we don't do it for it all to be in vain.”

“I'm from Cleveland. I don't have any famous parents. I don't have any media training, I don't have a history in the industry to where I would have any preconceived notions of how I'm supposed to be.”

“I want to keep the whole 'Lace Up' movement going. I want to take it national and international with a machine, a label.”

“I think the artist community is very tight-knit.”

“I don't feel fear anymore, in any form.”

“My executive board, my management, my friends, are so ethnically diverse.”

“I'm an anarchist. I have it tattooed on my stomach.”

“Puff is more of a mentor rather than someone who's directly involved in my movement or helping me put my album together. It's not like me and him party together. He's definitely more of, like, a mentor.”

“I think that me as a person, and as a personality, even my name alone, 'Machine Gun Kelly' - it is very loud, and it says a lot.”

“I'm probably one of the wildest, most out-of-control people in the industry.”