Macklemore

“I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.”

“I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.”

“The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.”

“The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.”

“When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.”

“'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.”

“I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.”

“I got sober, and I got happy again.”

“I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.”

“I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.”

“I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.”

“Bullying is a national epidemic.”

“When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.”

“I'm a very conceptual writer.”

“Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.”

“No freedom till we're equal. Damn right I support it.”

“I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.”

“I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.”

“The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.”

“I'm as honest as I can be.”