Rich Brian

“When I say 'homeschooled,' I was homeschooled for, like, two years, and then we just stopped. It was me and my parents, and they'd give me homework and stuff like that, but then one day, they just stopped.”

“Being home-schooled, you really get to explore your hobbies, what you want to do for a living.”

“I went through a clubbing phase - then, I dunno, dude. The club scene in Jakarta sucks. It's rich kids and kids who are trying to look rich.”

“I'm definitely not making fun of hip-hop.”

“I very rarely shop. The only money I spend is on, like, Uber and food.”

“It took me a while to figure out the U.S. sense of humor, a lot of trial and error. I would write down jokes to casually tell my American friend over Skype to see which ones he'd laugh at.”

“Every time I get the chance, I just talk to myself basically in English just to practice my pronunciation.”

“I say funny stuff in my songs sometimes, but it's still all in the seriousness of the music and the craft.”

“I feel like, with an album, that's how you get to know an artist.”

“I'm definitely trying to make longer songs, but if it's short and good, I'm not going to do anything about it.”

“I didn't want to be one of those people that does something that blows up and keeps doing it for way too long.”

“I have very little thoughts on Lil Xan. I think his music is very unique.”

“In my neighborhood, there are stray goats everywhere, and, someone owns it. Someone has a farm full of goats. At daytime, they just let them loose, but then at nighttime, they just come back. So, it's like, in daytime, the whole neighborhood is just filled with goats walking around.”

“I started home-schooling when I was in elementary school because my parents were really busy back then. They didn't have time to drive me there, and we didn't have a school bus or whatever.”

“I just love making people laugh.”

“Honestly, I'm not a big activism or politic guy. I wouldn't say I'm super educated in that stuff, and I feel like I shouldn't speak on things that I don't understand too much.”

“It got to the point where I would wake up at 6 A.M. and go on my phone and tweet something and have it be really good and get lots of retweets... and then I would wake up, because it was actually a dream; I would wake up with my hand holding nothing - an air phone.”

“All I have to do is to do my thing. I don't have to talk about it like, 'Oh, I'm representing for Asians.' I'm just... doing it.”

“I grew up in West Jakarta, in a middle-to-low-class neighbourhood.”

“My sister sings, and my brother plays the keyboard.”