I grew up with Chief Keef and Lil Reese. We all lived in the same environment, I went to school with them and everything.
Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.
Music is my life. If music takes a backseat, everything will go away from my life.
'I don't want to grow up', Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.
My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.
I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.
I don't think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.
I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.
I breathe music... The acting is a job, but music is life. You need a job to live.
I write about love, but it's me wanting to be in love. I've never been in love. I love my mom, my dad. I want to be in love. I think I have to allow myself to get there. I'm just so in love with music. It's weird. I'm at a crossroads because I want to be in love.
Once I started music, it just was fulfilling in a way that everything else wasn't.
It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.
Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.
I like the music. I don't like the business. I get very tired of the travel and moving, constantly moving. But the hour-and-a-half that I'm making music, I'm one of the happiest people on earth.
I learned that life is about living and enjoying and all of that made me connect to music in whole other level.
I used to listen to 'Ready to Die' around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.
If a song or group hits you at the right time in your life, it's everything. It's bigger than school or family or anything else.
I'm a music person. Music is, for me, the best way to cure any sort of anxiety or icky feelings. I think it immediately takes you out of your element and makes some other person do the work for your thoughts.
I think pop music, for me as a kid, I hated school and ran home to watch Britney Spears videos. I just felt like I could forget about the stuff I didn't like about my life and listen to pop music and escape.
That's why I love music - because I'm such a control freak, and it's the only thing that I can't really control.
Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win.
Music has always been a big part of my life. It's kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it to get away.
Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.
