Top 60 Kyle Quotes

I’m afraid of the dark.

I know everywhere is cool and all, but, at least for me, I was lucky enough to be in southern California. I feel lucky to be from there… I feel like it taught me how to be polite.

You never know how many people are compassionate about something, especially when it’s not happening to you. You just hope somebody‘s out there helping.

I don’t think anyone has the same music sound as me. I can’t think of anyone else.

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.

At some point, I had to ignore what people thought of me. I had to be my own biggest fan from an early age. Once I learned that, it was like a superpower. That was the armor that got me through high school.

As I grew up and really – 22, 23, 24 – I was faced with new problems that were bigger. A lot of them were issues that pertained to people that were super close to me.

I always been writing songs since I was, like, six. I was listening to Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Frankie Laine and people like that. I was just in the backyard writing songs.

I’m definitely a West Coast artist, so much so that I’m gonna get ‘Thug Life’ tatted on my stomach one day.

I don’t feel pressure to act like other people or rap like other people, because I just can’t.

I just like blending all the genres together but blending them up in a good way. I try to be as free as I can with it.

I did have a speech impediment.

Pete Rock, CL Smooth, all this East Coast stuff – that’s kind of, like, the rappers I first admired. I wanna rap just like them because I just thought they were so hard. I thought their delivery was so crazy.

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.

When you roast yourself, it makes everybody else comfortable.

I always wanted to do magic tricks – I feel like that could be the the next wave.

I’m not ever going to – ever going to be able to put on chains and become the Migos.

I heard ‘Why,’ and I think that’s when I first started learning about Jadakiss.

Big Sean could get on a verse with anybody and probably annihilate them.

What’s important is that people never give up that fight to be happy, because when you do that, that’s when things really start to go wrong.

‘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 would want people to be their own superheroes, save their own days, know that nobody else is gonna do it for you. You have to pick yourself up out of your dark moment; you gotta be your own source of light, just like I was for me.

When I hear a beat that makes me want to tell a story, then that’s what I’m going to say.

I feel like I’m a good listener.

The name ‘Light of Mine‘ came from how the album was conceived and what its purpose was in telling my story. I started making it at a time when I was, more or less, in a darker place than usual.

I’ve always wanted to make people feel better or feel alright or feel comfortable or not threatened and feel OK in their own skin.

I just want to reach a point where I have an opportunity to impact the entire world with one song.

I ran track, and I was really good at it. I was really fast.

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.

I always tried to pride myself on my versatility – I can’t just be the ‘iSpy‘ guy.

I played football. I was pretty bad at that.

Yachty is a genius.

I try to make things as versatile as possible. Usually, you have to listen to one artist for a certain vibe and another artist to catch the next vibe. I want to make an album that has all of that in there.

There’s nobody taller and cooler than Will Smith. He’s the coolest tall person, so I’m trying to be like that.

Kodak is hard. ‘No Flockin’ is an amazing song.

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.

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 had the type of family who would tell all their kids, ‘You’re going to be president.’

Most people have perceived my brand and my personality as this guy that just is so happy, he has no cares in the world.

I have a really diverse family and have a diverse background in music.

I really love ‘Mr. Rager.’ I know the first album is incredible, but my favorite Kid Cudi album is the second one.

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.

That was everything to me as a kid. When I’d see someone on MTV, it was like, ‘Wow, they’re the real deal.’

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 look at old performers like James Brown: back in the day when you actually had to work hard to get poppin’. I look at all those types of performers. Even like Kid n’ Play and the Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff and Salt-N-Pepa. That era where they had to perform. You couldn’t just rap. It had to be an entire performance.

I’ll always have my fan base. I know my actual fans are rockin’ with me even when my haircut was messed up. They’re never gonna leave.

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.

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.

It’s important to reassure people that everything is going to be all right.

I want to make an impact on people. Like John Lennon writing ‘Imagine,’ a song that changes an entire generation of people.

I need to get as deep as I can into my own heart to really make people connect and react to the music as passionate as possible.

Shooting a music video sometimes can be a job.

People called me sharktooth, Dracula. I got made fun of so much cause I couldn’t afford braces.

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that’s kinda like what I am.

It’s not about being happy 100 percent all the time, cause that’s just life. I make sad songs, too, that really only make the happy songs better.

I feel like what’s important is to interact with your fans online. Touring is really important to stay connected with your fans.

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.

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.

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.