Tyga Quotes

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

A lot of my music is inspired by personal situations in my life.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

There's always going to be life experiences that find their way into my songs.

There's really no differentiation between the work I make and the world I live in.

I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.

When I hear somebody like Hayes Carll write a song that's touching and poignant and sad and funny all at the same time, it motivates me to step my game up and try to figure out a way to get more different emotions into one line or one song.

Cry Baby is very close to my heart. I feel like I am her in a lot of ways. I want to continue making music from her perspective.

I've never been interested in diarising my life through song. So much stuff has been done before. So many people have brilliantly articulated the pain of heartbreak or the joy of love or whatever. Those elements exist in our music, but I guess I strive to write about unconventional things instead.

Your music essentially reflects everything you do, everything you've been through, in the deepest part of you.

If you're going to be an artist, real life is your inspiration.

With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.

The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

My act has always reflected what's going on in my life.

I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time.

I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I could steal from. I was an imitator. That's what I was. It was years before I could take all of these things that I loved about all of these different artists and put them together and find my voice.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.