Music fills peoples with life. It doesn't have to be a 'happy song.' If you have that one song that relates to you, whether it's a sad song or a gangster song, whatever relates to you the most in that moment, it can literally get you through the day.
— Kyle
I just want to be an artist that makes exactly what he feels.
I feel like one of my strengths is writing about stories that are unique to me but somehow relate with everyone, and the one thing I've found is that if you make a song wholly unique to you, then you don't have to compete with everybody, because nobody else can make a song like you.
I feel like I'm a good listener.
Imagine if James Brown was your roommate. What? Do you know how much fun you'd be having all the time? Oh my God, he would have you looking the freshest. He would have you doing the funnest stuff for sure, easily. You'd be having the most crackin' parties.
The most powerful, most insightful, and most important part of my music is honesty and inclusiveness with my fans - giving them as deep a story as I can give them.
Kid Cudi has saved lives. He saved my life.
Growing up a good person, it's a lot harder than you'd think.
I've always wanted to do acting.
What is a hit? Who can tell? Who decides what a hit sounds like? I needed to remind myself that a hit is whatever people decide is a hit. I don't make hits; I make music. People make hits.
I'm a drama kid at heart. That is definitely where my heart and soul is. I did 'Hairspray' in high school - I was Seaweed.
I feel like what's important is to interact with your fans online. Touring is really important to stay connected with your fans.
Kodak is hard. 'No Flockin' is an amazing song.
Randomly enough, all of my favorite rappers growing up were East Coast rappers. I don't know. I just related to them a little more at first - because if you're born in L.A., and you lived there your whole life, Snoop Dogg literally sounds like cars driving by. You feel me? You hear Snoop Dogg so much.
I played baseball. I kind of sucked at that. They used to call me 'The Buntmaster' because my coach never wanted me to swing.
The Kyle who made 'Smyle' honestly has a little more conflict in his life. He has a little more weight on his shoulders. He feels like he has to make an album about something. It's a Kyle with duty, with a plan, with a responsibility.
I always tried to pride myself on my versatility - I can't just be the 'iSpy' guy.
I wanna make music that helps people.
When I hear a beat that makes me want to tell a story, then that's what I'm going to say.
I've been a nerd my whole life.
There's nobody taller and cooler than Will Smith. He's the coolest tall person, so I'm trying to be like that.
I think about love being so important because, to me, that's the reason we were put on Earth. Love, in a sense, is God to me.
We really have the power to illuminate all negative things in our life, but we have to find that light source inside of us and really tap in with it and reconnect with it.
All I can do with my music is try and be a light for people who are in a dark time.
Incubus is fire.
Shooting a music video sometimes can be a job.
It's important to reassure people that everything is going to be all right.
I've always been such an album-driven artist that I never really stopped to think about how cool it would be to just have one really big song.
'Beautiful Loser' had a lot of great records. It had a lot of really heartfelt songs on there. But I felt, at the time, it didn't have it's own cohesive sound.
I knew that 'Nothing to Lose' wasn't gonna probably go off the same way numbers-wise like 'iSpy,' but 'Nothing to Lose' was more like a statement record for me.
I'd love to be more involved in sports. There's so much positive energy - I have to be around it. Especially as I get older.
I played football. I was pretty bad at that.
My momma will roast my friends all of the time. If you're one of my friends, and you meet my mom for the first time, she will definitely roast you in a polite way. It's just to test your bars.
I always wanted to do magic tricks - I feel like that could be the the next wave.
If I was a spy, I would have a watch that would cloak me in invisibility.
My relationship with my father is fine. Every relationship has its ups and downs because bad things happen in all relationships. But for me, I can only write about what I'm feeling in the moment and something that actually happened to me.
When you're the cool guy, you don't know how to take people not liking you. I've already been there, done that.
I am a pretty bad driver, so when I drive, I need to be calm. I can't be vibing to DMX, all hype, in the car.
I think love is, by far, the strongest force in the entire universe. Love is so strong, it'll make you do something that, in any other circumstance, you would never do.
Doesn't matter if you're sad or happy. I can be sad, you can be happy; it's all good. That's all I'm saying - let's just be us.
You just don't know how uncool it is to be Kyle until you're Kyle.
People should listen to my music if they are into a lot of different genres and kind of want to get it all at once, if they want to listen to a story, an interesting story about somebody else.
I like being funny; I like laughing with people.
I want to make a lot of people smile.
I'm definitely a West Coast artist, so much so that I'm gonna get 'Thug Life' tatted on my stomach one day.
Around when I turned 17 and I bought my own studio equipment and started recording myself, I kinda found my own voice. I just started rapping like my normal self and this happy guy.
I felt like I related to East Coast lyricism a little more. Because I couldn't be super gangsta.
My family loves Mark McGwire.
Even if I told my mom I wanted to be a clown or live in the forest, she would be down.
I'm afraid of the dark.
