Killer Mike Quotes

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

Money is sensual.

You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years. And I have sheds full of things, maybe sometimes nine copies of the same thing.

When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.

The media is convincing people that if you have that 'next thing,' that diamond, the right car, then you'd be happier.

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

You're never rich enough if you can be richer.

If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, 'You can have a Rolls-Royce'. I'd say to that, 'What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a Volkswagen or a bike?' Some people get carried away with the juice.

I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that.

How many BMWs do you need? How many Rolex watches you gonna wear in your lifetime, for crying out loud? What is it about that kind of desire? I don't understand it.

After I had money, I realized about all that all the things I thought I wanted that I don't need a lot of stuff. If there's anything I get excited by, it's a nice car.

My first signing bonus was 3,500 bucks. I bought speakers and a five-disc carousel CD changer. Dude, I thought I was the wealthiest quarterback around.

Luxury takes many forms nowadays, but one thing doesn't change: luxury is about desire and the ability to create dreams.

I bought quite a few houses and cars.

Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

Money? I lost all taste for it.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.