ASAP Rocky Quotes

A lot of creativity coming from the east side of Harlem. It really built my character and who I am.

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

I'm from a rural town outside of Stockholm, so in coming to L.A., I've been able to not think that much about my background. It's much easier for me in this big town, this big bubble to isolate myself from that and be a little more self-confident. I'm here to do my take on soul.

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people. When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five years - most of the people who live in Harlem are transplants. They migrate to Harlem from another place.

My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.

I'm always really interested in different environments and how they affect people's lives and what it would be like to live somewhere else.

I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.

New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien.

The destiny of the Latino community is interwoven with the destiny of the United States.

I think it's important to stay curious and see and experience as much as you can, whether it's art, performance, music, travel, or just hanging out and people-watching.

I am not anti-European. I have many friends and acquaintances who are Europeans.

You lose something in not being rooted, but you gain something by seeing the world differently. It's both a loss and a gift.

A lot of the attitude I used to have about being from New York when I was younger just disappeared when I started to the rest of the world.

I'm not afraid to embrace different music and different culture and put it in the music.

As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around them.

You should be able to be influenced by art no matter where it comes from.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

I make it my business to be around people that don't look like me or think like me or act like me. I want to learn from them.

I feel like, Estonia, the sky is so low, and the people are much more close-minded than in America. So when I came to the U.S., I had a massive explosion of creativity and felt like I could do basically anything I want.

It's important to me to reach deep into the community and promote Latino artists.

Coming from the Philippines to the U.S. did shape me in that it gave me perseverance.

When I first came to New York, I was surprised by all these out teenagers who were openly on the street being who they were. That intrigued me because I was 27 and still struggling with being myself.

I wouldn't mind if I had to travel every single day. I love meeting new people and experiencing new things, making new connections with people in different places.

And so I remember moving to LA, going to the Islamic center in Hollywood and feeling like the cultural element wasn't what we were operating from as much as the spiritual one, and that was really cool. That was really good for, you know, my growth and my development.