Bryson Tiller Quotes

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so nice to care about someone more than yourself. And Mike is a total delinquent, so if he can do it, I figure I can, too.

Becoming a mother has made all the difference in terms of learning to take more responsibility for myself and my life. Parenthood changed the way I do everything.

I've been married 23 years now. Gone from spending all of my time on the road to being a husband and father.

I'm a father now. I've got a beautiful kid. I'm a little more wiser.

Fatherhood has changed me, I've become more patient.

Fatherhood changed me as a musician.

My daughter has changed me. She has made me grow up quicker because I don't just have a kid, I have a baby girl. She has made me more patient. I am actually soft when I get around her. I don't think she changed me as a fighter, but she has changed me as a person. She has helped me mature.

Before I had my babies, I would tend to be self-absorbed, and worry about little things, but now I am a changed person.

You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.

If I was single and did not have kids, I wonder whether if I would try as hard to be patient, to mind how I react to situations. Not saying people who do not have children don't, but in my life and how I fight against doing the things that have positive impact in my life...I think I would find it easier not to practice the principles did I not have children.

I feel like I see life differently. I see it as this amazing challenge that I look forward to every day. I never used to see life as that. It used to be just this thing you went through and had a good time. Now I have responsibilities to myself, my family, my fans that I have to uphold. It's more exciting this way and way more rewarding.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.