A biography for Saint Jhnhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm not a center-of-attention guy.”
“I am building an archive. I don't need for anyone to tell me that I matter. I am just going to record it for myself.”
“I can't play guitar or piano. I can't even play dumb to get through TSA in the airport.”
“The only thing I know is the only things that I know. You can't ask me to talk about something I have no information on. I stay silent. It'd be foolish. So when I talk about something, it's something I at least have a little bit of familiarity with me.”
“I don't think of myself as just a rapper. But overspending on sneakers? That's a real rapper thing to do.”
“I was rapping because there were so many things that I wanted to say. There weren't enough words for me to articulate all of the things that I wanted to say in a three minute song.”
“My mom made me read a ton of books, so I got good at words and understood the English language. So when I started rapping, words were something I knew. I learned how to manipulate them so that I could say whatever I wanted to say.”
“I'm a marketing guy at my core. If I wasn't doing music, I would still be introducing ideas on how I like branding and marketing.”
“I like musk and oud in a really, really delicate way. Because sometimes, if there's too much oud, it just smells like you're in the back of a cab in Harlem and I can't do it.”
“The first time I worked with Usher, I learned that I belonged in the room. You know the first time you get invited into a room you have never been in and you almost feel like you lied your way in? The second time, you don't feel like you lied your way in.”
“If I say I'm rich enough times and enough people say it back to me, I gotta be rich, right?”
“The 4-year-old me was getting laughed in school at for being too dark.”
“Self-care. I got that from my mom. Even if we had nothing, we were always moisturized. So much Vaseline. In the dead of winter, I was hot. I had a whole other layer on.”
“I think it takes an unbelievable amount of hours for anybody to master their craft.”
“My father wasn't present, so my older brother felt like a father. He was only two years older than me so that was all I had.”