Yelawolf

“I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.”

“I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.”

“Race is still real and you got to recognize it.”

“I definitely prefer intimate crowds. I mean, those are always the best shows, like, a small venue. Packed to the gills. Hot, sweaty. Those are always the fun shows.”

“Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.”

“I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.”

“My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love going home. I'm in the kitchen with people who don't know anything but the simple life, what's important to them, and what's dope.”

“Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.”

“I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.”

“Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.”

“Fans are all I care about - to be honest. If they stop coming to the shows, then I will get worried.”

“I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.”

“I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.”

“The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.”

“My fans are like no other. Completely original people.”

“My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.”

“People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.”

“You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.”

“I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out.”

“You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.”