Quotes from Wiz Khalifa

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.

Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.

I made my first mix tape when I was 14.

My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.

Whatever I do, I do it because I want to do it and because it's completely, 100% me.

I think wherever you go, when people hear good music, they will react to it.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle.

There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.

I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.

I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.

I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.

I've done a lot of work to get where I'm at, but I have to keep working.

I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.

I'm always hustling.

I want to be an icon.

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

Yeah, baggy jeans are done. Nobody wants to wear big, baggy jeans. Baggy jeans are completely over with.

I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something.

Every day is new. It's just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.

I love my wife. We FaceTime and we talk on the phone and she travels to come see me when she can. But she works as well. But we see each other a lot more than people would think, though, because we make it happen and we love each other so much.

You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.

The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz.