Rod Wave

“I don't need no extra attention from nobody. I'm good.”

“I never really was like, 'Let's me and this rapper link so the song can go crazy and everybody can listen to it.' I never made music for that purpose.”

“I liked Kanye West when I was coming up.”

“Life comes with pain.”

“I can't get on the Internet without seeing my face or name.”

“The single 'Pray 4 Love' was a summary for the album, but there are a lot of different messages about the way to deal with relationships from dealing with your homeboys to dealing with your pain. This is life that we all go through.”

“I think I been chosen to be a 2020 XXL Freshman 'cause, you know, I been rocking with XXL since I started, you know what I'm saying? They respect grind, you know?”

“I feel like before music, I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I didn't know where I was going to end up. I was scared to even have people depending on me.”

“I hate attention, man.”

“I just love making music, bruh.”

“When I do my music, I don't even go to the studio. It's just me and my engineer in a dark room somewhere, recording.”

“I just wanted to make music, because it's how I get stuff off my chest. I want it to always feel like my escape.”

“I listen to everything that sounds good with a story. I even listen to Adele. I listen to all kinds of music. Everything with a story that I can listen to and close my eyes and visualize it. I just love music.”

“Life goes up and down. So I just incorporate it with my music. I'm just blessed.”

“I can definitely write a book. Growing up, I really learned that. The stuff I was reading were urban books and I definitely got into it a lot.”

“I remember my first time in the studio, I wasted like six hours. There were too many people in there. I was kind of shy.”

“You listen to my music, I'ma tell you how I'm feeling, the pain that I go through on a daily basis, my real life, you know what I'm saying? Reality - I feel like a lot of people living in fairytale land, wonderland.”

“My lady, my mama, my grandma, everybody think I'm crazy.”

“I remember getting evicted and all kinds of stuff. Police coming to get me out of my house, telling me it's time to go. I remember all of that.”

“Somebody who really influenced me since a kid was Lil Phat. He was just telling his life story.”