Madlib Quotes

A lot of people tell me, once they get to know me, that they're surprised that I'm nothing like they think I'll be.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

It's funny: people who meet me say, 'I thought you'd be different.' But I'm still the same guy.

That's always a funny thing, when people think they're known for every little thing they ever did, and they're really not.

People think, 'Oh, I don't need to worry about him,' and they underestimate me because I am a rapper.

The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

Sometimes with the Palins, it's exactly what it looks like.

My reality is the misconceptions about me.

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold drinks running everywhere and a party all the time. They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don't really exist. Things are actually fairly simple.

There was an article about me once, and the first line was, 'It's good to be a gangster.' Well, I'm not a gangster. I'm an actor.

Philip's story is the most interesting in the royal family - his background is the opposite of what you'd think. Everyone has this idea that Philip is this bumbling, deliberately posh sort of man who says the wrong thing.

People used to assume I was a serious/sad person because of my music for some reason.

I don't want any gimmicks. The fact that people think that Whack is a gimmick is so crazy.

I think people have a warped sense of who I am.

I look into people's eyes and I know they think I'm a bad guy.

People always meet me and go, 'You're so much cooler than I thought you'd be,' and I'm like, 'What did you expect me to be like?'

A lot of people know me, but they don't know me well.

They misunderestimated me.

Not to harp on too much about Ma, but it's a misconception that she is formidable. She calls herself a patsy.

I don't see the point of Twitter, so I write a lot of stuff to mess with people. But because I used to do dumb things on the court, people think I'm dumb in regular life. But once people meet me, they feel dumb themselves.