Chance The Rapper Quotes

I like making music which connects to me and the real situations in life.

I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things.

Storytelling is not what I do for a living - it is how I do all that I do while I am living.

You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with.

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.

The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death.

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts.

I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.

The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

I think that the beauty of 'Spud' is that everyone can connect to the character of Spud in so many ways. It's about real experiences that happen to kids all the time.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of art. But I don't think a work of art can actively reject the person who's looking at it or reading it.

It's weird when you get roles that coincide with your life.

The song 'Baby Baby,' I so love that song because I wrote it about my first daughter.

Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.

In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.