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“I live the everyday struggle in real life.”

“If it's the right song for me, I'll get on that song. It's not about the individual. It's about the music.”

“When I was in the game during my first or second project, I would like walk around like my chest up. I'd tell people, watch me, I'll blow up. I took myself way more serious back then when I was nobody than I do now. Now I'm more humble about it, just chilling.”

“The thing about 'Bad Habits' was the album before that, 'Reckless,' was me going in with a total cocky attitude.”

“I feel like Toronto is always going to be the most musical place as long as we stick to learning all the time.”

“The one very liberating feeling and thought that I have every day is that I can pretty much die happy.”

“The people in the world who don't know my background, don't know my story, don't know anything about me, they're gonna judge it off face value and hate right away. People hate what they can't understand.”

“It's cool to be an Indian rapper, but it's a challenge and a responsibility, too, because you have to represent everything the right way.”

“I feel like when you first start out, people like your story. They like these facts about you. And as you get bigger and bigger as artists, it becomes all about the music. You know, 'Is the music good or not? We don't care about your story anymore. We don't care that you make beats anymore. Is the music gonna hit?'”

“I used to think I was cursed 'cause of my high-pitched voice and image.”

“You think you're a grown up when you're 13-years-old.”

“I was at my mom's house in the hood my whole life. I didn't get to see L.A. until I was 26.”

“On 'Reckless' I was just a rapper, but really I'm a producer, engineer, a musician, and needed to put that all into the music.”

“Anybody that's really close to me, they know I'm really funny and I love to joke. I can laugh at anything.”

“There's an album I did called 'Reckless' and that time is the perfect example of me not caring about music, me caring about everything else and forgetting about what brought me here. And that's why I feel like I had the results I did with that album.”

“I like to play video games. I like doing regular stuff too like go-karting and bowling.”

“I watched The Weeknd create one of his biggest albums - the 'Starboy' album. That's when I first came around in the team.”

“A lot of people say I use too much autotune but no, my voice is just robotic. I say a word with one flat note... I don't do vibrato. You can hear me, you know what it is.”

“I've known Uzi for a while... he's the best.”

“I could have $15 million in the bank right now, and that doesn't mean I'd stop trying to be a better artist. I'd still be working as hard.”