Tyga

“I'm making music that I love and I want to hear. At the same time, things like making money, making crazy money - you gotta find ways to reach to everybody but uplift everybody.”

“Girls always want a reason to get crazy. I get the feeling that girls are crazy anyway, so they just want a reason to really get wild. Why not let it be to a Tyga song?”

“There are so many artists that inspire me, it's honestly too many names to go through. I look up to people who've been in the game for years.”

“I had faith that music would be able to take me somewhere. I didn't know where. I just was like, 'Keep having faith, and any doors that open, I'll walk through them and see what happens from there.'”

“Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of me of a certain time in my life and why I got that tattoo.”

“Girls grab me all the time. To me, that's regular, so it's not really crazy.”

“The frustrating part of being an artist is that I can do a whole interview, and all most people are going to see is the headlines. As artists, we should be able to write our own headlines.”

“God puts us in places. It's for you to make the decision whether you go left or right.”

“I don't follow trends. I'm a trendsetter. I represent all the younger generations; fly kids, creative kids - they look up to me. I got a program that's called ROAR. I go to all high schools everywhere we go, and I talk to all the kids, and I give away 30-35 tickets and passes to the kids doing good in school. Stuff like that means a lot to me.”

“I never grew up in the Valley. I lived in Compton/Gardena my whole life.”

“Making music is like being the president: You can't tell people you're going to make health care free to get them behind you, but when you get that role, you don't do it.”

“I don't like Drake as a person. He's just fake to me.”

“I try to be cool with everybody, but sometimes, everybody just has different personalities, motives, and different characters.”

“I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.”

“I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life.”

“When I go home and get off tour, I'd like to have a peace of mind. I like to chill. I don't like everything to be all chaotic like how it is when I step outside, you know?”

“I dropped out of high school when I was, like, 15, so I just focused on doing music. It's all I wanted to do; I didn't want to work or anything else. I took all the negativity and obstacles that came with life, and I just put it in the music.”

“I want to make people feel certain ways when they listen to my music. Whether it's partying or going through relationship problems or grinding or getting dressed and feeling fly. I want to be who I am and have emotion in my music that affects people.”

“A lot of my fans know that I love candy. I eat candy all day.”

“You can't base your life off waking up every morning, like, 'What are people saying about me now?' Then I'd never stay in my creative headspace.”