Virgil Abloh Quotes

Me and Kendrick Lamar have had conversations for years back and forth, so that's my dude.

I can't front: I like Kanye.

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

People sort of imagine Chris Morris and me sitting somewhere dark, with dripping taps and chilling background music. In fact, we like to sit on his roof in the sunshine - and there's an endless amount of just sitting there, going, 'So, erm, er, what shall we do?'

The arts have always been in and around my life.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

I only think one person is really cool, and that's Kanye.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.

I never wanted to be that fad type of artist. When I looked up to artists, watching TV, I wanted to see somebody. I wanted to touch that person. I wanted to sound like them. I wanted to move like them. That' s what I want my fans to do. So that's why, everything that I do, the music I make, how I dress, it's all based off my lifestyle.

My songwriting process, and maybe loads of other people's, is just this sort of smashing together of emotions and stuff to make some music. It's kind of simple and really complex at the same time and, as you can see, incredibly hard to explain.

I love Stephen Stills and Neil Young dearly. We talk all the time. We see each other.

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

For me, making music is about my whole life. The basics, the components, simple things - family, living, just going to the market and getting new fruit and veg. That's what keeps my blood flowing.

Soul is a colourless thing. I don't think you have to be a black person to be automatically soulful. I respect Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake; they do what they do. For me, my philosophy has always been 'contribution before competition.'

I'd love to be the female Kanye. I think he's so cool and effortless.

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.

All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

Nikki lives around the corner from me and I see him all the time. We talk a lot, and of course we're still friends. That was our baby, Motley Crue, we put that band together.

The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

Gesualdo was very important to me, I wanted to do something which corresponded to him.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.