A biography for Macklemorehasn’t been written yet.
“It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'”
“You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.”
“My partner has to have good sized bones.”
“I think music should be experienced by people all ages.”
“I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.”
“Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.”
“It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.”
“The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.”
“I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.”
“I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.”
“Do you want to live life, or do you want to escape life?”
“'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.”
“It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.”
“Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.”
“I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for it. You weren't able to enjoy it.' I want to be here, be now and be grateful.”
“You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.”
“Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.”
“I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.”
“You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.”
“There's this tendency to be like, 'Where's the negative stuff? How valid is the criticism?' But honestly, what people think of me is none of my business. If I live on the Internet looking for public approval, I'm going to be miserable.”