Mac Miller Quotes

Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

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.

The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.

I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dressed fairly smartly.

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

With Lady Gaga I really stretched myself as a creative director, and because I was with this artist from before she got signed I was able to really take control of the opportunity and execute as a creative director.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.

Most people lose their natural creativity at about five or six - but not me.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

Everyone has their thing, and I was the weird, artsy kid.

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.

Both my fathers are unconventional. They are like unicorns or wizards. They are musicians through and through. The way they think is just different.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

I'm an odd mixture. I'm a sort of Geordie punk who started in classical theatre. It means nobody ever knows quite where to put me, but I like that.

We were from downtown, so we were rapping in Danceteria, in these white downtown clubs, really. Nobody downtown was rapping. Nobody we knew was rapping. So we were like, 'We should do it.' We weren't making fun of it; we loved it, and we wanted to be part of it.

I think my family knows that I'm slightly off the wall with my way of thinking, so I think they're quite used to my weird and wonderful creations.

I don't feel like I've ever fit into a specific mold ever since I was very young. That's what so cool about YouTube is that you can do whatever you want.

If you look at the 'Casi Nada' video, I'm, like, a good girl.