“I was celibate for like a year,” he said in 2016. “I just wanted to ensure my mental health as a human being.” Then one day he said to himself: “How much longer are you going to be here? It’s good that you sat and you’re reading these books and you’re leaving the girls alone but, like, get over yourself.”

"People always judge me against what Tribe was. I try not to pay attention to those shackles, but everyone else does," he said in a 2018 interview with OKPlayer. "It is frustrating. I try to rely on the humanitarianism of the listen. Meaning, everybody else has those hangs ups on me, but I don’t pay attention to it."

"I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before."

"I like abstraction. I like contortion … It's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual."

"We have to realize our power. Individually, we are a strength, but as a unit, we are a mic.If they want to keep playing with the third rail – see this is why I don’t like doing interviews, I got a big mouth sometimes, but it’s the truth."

"Hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody."

"My thing is that I don’t want to be one-dimensional," he said to COMPLEX in 2015. "There are a lot of cats out there who are extremely good at one thing and that’s it." 

"When I said 'don’t need a billboard hit for me to hit you' – that thinking ties into the logic behind ‘Soundcloud rap’ as well. Those lyrics were about showing rappers that there are other pathways and conduits to reach your audience...I wanted to show there was a different path to success.”