Big K.R.I.T. Quotes

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.

It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done.

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.

The music industry is something that I'm still trying to understand. With acting, I've been doing it for so long that I understand every aspect of it for the most part - there are obviously still more aspects that I need to learn - but I have a grasp on it. With music, I'm still learning. I'm still getting used to it.

When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a new record out in the Spring.

I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour. I want to take this time and be a sponge and start meeting people and start - just start.

I'm now 23 and feel like it's been a full 'crash course' in the music industry - I've only just found my sound.

The cool thing about G.O.O.D. Music is it's a bunch of great ideas, and I'm one of those ideas.

I'm actually going to self-produce my next tape that I'm working on, 'Platinum Frame'. This going to be my second official mixtape.

I really want to produce a record for Mary J. Blige.

A producer gets the whole vision done from top to bottom, to making the record to having the record delivered to the world. That's a producer.

When I did 'Ephorize,' I didn't know that later on I'd be releasing another album. It just came.

I've been with Def Jam Records for five years and they gave me my first recording contract so for that I'm forever grateful.

I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

I'm just a musician and a record producer.

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm not at all. You've got the Internet and music - you put them together, and people hear your music.

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

I don't spend much time listening to the records when they're done. Usually I let go of it. Especially in the Eighties and Nineties - they were like product, almost.

I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

I was kicked off a record label and didn't get picked up again. It was devastating at first because I thought, 'Oh my God. My career is over. What's gonna happen? What am I going to do?' Once I got that I could have a career, a very good career, without having a hit record, then I changed.

Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.