I don't represent anybody and I don't hold anything at such a high arc that I gotta manage by somebody's rule. I don't ever do good with rules.
— Riff Raff
I quit school. I don't do good in following police guidelines or restrictions. For someone to put rules on a genre of music or put me in a category of rap, I can't even see how you can do that.
I love wrestling.
I don't always get along with people who are super professional.
I saw the EDM world and wanted to be in that more than the hip-hop world.
I'm rap-game James Franco.
I want to stay consistent and drop an album every year, so in the long run, you can see that I'm an actual artist.
I need everything first-class. If it's not a private plane, I need everything first-class. Flights, I need hotel suites, I need the best hotel in town, the top of the line best hotel suite.
James Franco is a coach, therefore he doesn't need coaching or guidance.
I can't change me and I can't change other people's thinking. All I can do is continuously get better. So if I'm doing that, even if somebody doesn't like me or respect me, I don't care.
I can remember being a kid and watching Vanilla Ice and it made me smile... I love it. I love that. I can remember seeing Vanilla Ice and then through time he stopped being Vanilla Ice.
Now am I flamboyant? Am I over the top? Maybe.
If somebody wants to get inside my brain and figure out what I'm chasing, what I'm after think Richard Branson, think Madonna, think Lady Gaga.
I like to go one week with braids, and on the eighth day take it down, wash it, condition it. Then every two days wash it and condition it.
I got a restless mentality, I got to move around.
My dad was like a street basketball player. He had a real mysterious life.
I want to own a hotel, like Donald Trump.
To be truthful, when I'd be on the bus when I was a little kid, like fourth, fifth grade, we'd always be free-styling and playing around.
Whoever's on TV, that's who's famous back in the day.
I used to play video games and all that, but I don't really play video games that much.
At one point in time I was eating sushi like five days a week.
I'm ready for movies, TV and everything. That's what I want to do.
Whenever Jamie Foxx was on 'In Living Color' and then you saw him sing, it didn't take away from either of those things.
If I buy a new car, I rip the rearview mirror off because I don't like to look back.
I can't skateboard. I don't know how to do that!
Icons speak icon language.
I'm not the average person so when somebody sees me it's going to be bipolar: it's one or the other, you're going to love me or hate me.
I don't got nobody writing my lyrics and that's why I freestyle.
I'm gonna be me. Always.
It's like this: I've had the same mentality since I was five years old.
Growing up I loved this brand, and if someone would have told seven year old me that I would be selecting color combos with the originator of Gecko I would have cried.
Vanilla Ice sold ten million records. For him to be on MTV, it made me feel like it could be done.
People started hitting me up on Twitter cuz I was getting millions of views on YouTube and WorldStarHipHop.com and they saw me on MTV with Soulja Boy.
I love MTV. I watched 'Beavis and Butthead,' 'Wayne's World,' 'Yo! MTV Raps.' And they used to have music videos on there. When I got the chance to be on MTV, I took the first opportunity.
People always think I just focus on rap, but I listen to every type of music. If I like a song it don't matter what genre of music it is. I might listen to Duran Duran, I might listen to Sublime, maybe Red Hot Chili Peppers.
The Internet gives the public a chance to see what the real deal is! There ain't no hiding.
I mean, I'm about having fun. I'm not about what other people say.
I care about the here and now. I care about what's in front of me. Am I having fun or not? That's all I care about. I just do what I want.
I'm not, like, 'comedy rapping.'
Regardless of anything I say, some people try to take the fact that I'm an artist away from me.
I just know what an icon does, and that's whatever you want to do and it's trendsetting. You know? It's real cutting-edge.
Harmony Korine is a Rocket Scientist who purposely went on a 8-year vacation to let everyone catch up.
I've had no money, I've had a lot of money, I've lost a lot of money. I've been back and forth with everything. That's why other people's input doesn't really matter to me, because nobody's put me where I'm at.
I love Tom Ford. I love Harrison Ford, too.
I do whatever I feel like doing cause it's in my brain.
I drop videos off the cuff... I don't stop.
I'm 20 years ahead of social times. What does that tell you? That tells you that when I was four that I was thinking the same as the average human on 24.
Swisha House presented this vibe of candy-painted cars and big chains. I always had a fascination for flashy, expensive things.
Radio and TV don't have the power like they used to. With the Internet, people can pick. You can't hide talent no more.
I'm the Most Lyrically Flamboyant Artist of All Time.
