Nipsey Hussle Quotes

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

I just really need to sing and sing and sing and not worry about writing. Just by singing for pleasure, your voice takes you to what it wants to sing. And that is how the best stuff kind of emerges.

I realized music is the most important thing to me and I love writing songs, and I think I had more to say in life.

I think acting's very natural. It comes from a place of honesty, and if someone tries to teach you their way of doing it, that could be quite damaging.

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

I felt that the studio recording process makes you stand still too long.

The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

I've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really open to what I do.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

I'm not an amazingly trained soul singer, so with me it's about feeling and energy and spontaneity - that's a really big part of who I am.

I never try to pander to an audience, and I'm really not concerned with my image. I'm far more interested in stretching my abilities as an actor.

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.

In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.

Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again.

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

I watch clothes on other people, and it's like having a conversation before opening your mouth. For me, clothes come from the mind. They represent what's happening inside, and as long as they feel honestly like what I'm thinking about and going toward, I'm happy to bounce around and experience different things.