Lupe Fiasco Quotes

People don't have fun making music all the time.

My experience with music, I'm not going to say extremely negative, but it's definitely been a grind; it's been grimy - it hasn't been a pretty process. It's left me crying, you know, on the carpet in my tiny apartment with, like, no money. But it's been worth it, it's my passion, my dream, it's what I love to do.

I don't like flirting, and when I love someone, I always give everything, maybe too much. And then you have to work at it all the time. I mean, the first months are always great, but afterwards it becomes hard work. It's not as passionate and crazy.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

We performers sacrifice so much for your entertainment.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

I love music but, of course, I'd choose love over that.

A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

Marriage is hard work, period.

Every lover is a soldier.

I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.

Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.

I get to go make music, and I get paid to do it, and this is what people love me for. I couldn't ask for anything greater, so how could I not go in the studio and make a million songs?

If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

But i think it would drive me more crazy to just go do a movie that I didn't believe in, you know?

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

I always love making albums. I'm passionate about it and it's something that's healthy for the soul and spirit.

I love the atmosphere football brings; I love being around my teammates; I love the struggle in football. I love the fact that it is a part of my life. I don't look at it as any more important or less important as any other part of my life.