YoungBoy Never Broke Again Quotes

My career is based off of me talking about my emotions.

Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.

I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.

I realize now that it's important that I share my story... Also, it'll be easy for me to do an interview, to interact with people.

I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or a lesson, that may not reach people. I've learned a lot from people who have been writing about themselves.

I've never been a confessional writer.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and candidly as you are capable.

I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.

I found in my writing that I could express emotions that, as an everyday person, I have no interest in expressing: these strange things that girls talk about called feelings.

The only thing I wanted to do in my music is be human and communicate all the aspects of that, which often means being vulnerable.

We've always written from personal experiences.

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

I like to tell my own story using my personality and my insight, the way I see things.

I would describe my music as very honest. I just rap about myself, and not in a narcissistic way. I feel like I have a story to tell.