LIL DICKY

I can't really rap the way rappers rap; I drive a 2002 Toyota Avalon.

I think people just have to realize that music grows, and hip-hop evolves. I mean, everything evolves.

I don't necessarily think that when I graduated college, I had a plan to work at an ad agency. I had a plan in terms of getting the best job I could, like, just whatever normal job.

Lil Wayne was one of my favorite rappers.

My favorite part of festival season is probably the disposable income at hand for me... I get booked for more, and I make more money.

I feel like the Philadelphia sports teams are really good at having my back.

Obviously, my aspirations are to be considered one of the best. Like, anyone rapping should have that mindset.

I would say that I don't make music quickly; like, my process has been very slow, and my bar is very high, and I don't really rush to make music just to get something out there.

I remember, in fifth grade, doing a report on the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as a rap. It was just an easy way to get an A back then because everyone was turning in boring stuff.

If we're evaluating cool to the way other rappers appear to be cool, then I'm not cool at all.

Rapping works like a sport... the more you do it, the better you get at it.

LeBron James - I'm such a big basketball fan, and to be in his body for a day and be able to just dunk at will, have that level of court awareness and size, oh my goodness, that would be a treat.

I love rap, and part of hip-hop culture is being excessive and absurd, and I can't be excessive and absurd without sounding corny. So I have to do it in a very truthful, weird way.

By putting this music out, I think I genuinely eliminated 80 percent of the previous jobs I was qualified for.

Growing up, the one thing I noticed was that everyone seemed to laugh at my jokes wherever I went.

I've always been totally enamored by hip-hop. I wouldn't say I liked it exclusively growing up. It was, like, that and alt-rock. But I always preferred it. It set a tone for everything I wanted to do in life.

It's hard to form actual legitimate relationships.

I think, between me and Chris Brown, if you combined our games, you'd get, like, a real Division I basketball player.

In my heart, I believe I'm a top flight comedian and a top flight rapper.

I think my TV show is gonna be my big thing, so I'm pretty focused on that, and I think doing that will lead to all of the other opportunities I want, to jump to movies and other stuff, but it starts with that.

Snoop Dogg and T-Pain, to me, are like legends so it's like, any time you get to work with a legend like that, it's cool.

I wanted to explain that just because I'm rapping in this funny way doesn't mean that I'm not worthy of actually being evaluated as a rapper.

The thing is, I was never really a comedian - a comedian would scoff at the notion of me as a comedian because I've never done anything, really. I've always just been some guy who's funny.

It is crazy how people can't understand the concept of comedy and music. It's like they have to be mutually exclusive.

I care most about what rappers think about me as a rapper, and I've gotten a lot of praise. I think rappers understand I'm a really good rapper, and that means more to me than a random person, you know, 'cause they know what goes into making rap music.