Big Sean Quotes

Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you'll have some of the best times of your life.

Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things.

I think a lot of my fans are anxious for more than just my singles. They know I'm a dreamer. They know I'm someone who is real spiritual. I love to have fun, and I always have fun songs - songs you can party to. But I also always have songs you can live to, that when you're depressed, it may lift your spirits up.

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

It's easier to record in LA than in New York and Detroit, because the space in LA is green, and there's sunshine, and I need all those positive vibes.

My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going.

Gettin' dressed up for court, that's a law suit

I don't really write any of my raps down. The same, Kanye don't write any of his raps down. Common. It's easy that way. For me, personally, I figure I will lose some of the inspiration in the time of me writing it down, or I'll say it a certain way because I wrote it a certain way.

Adidas is just right. They've been, like, a partner I couldn't be more thankful for. I really feel like they've helped increase my popularity. You know? It's tight to be able to attach to their brand and be able to add whatever I can offer to their brand. It's nice to know that they appreciate it. They are always showing love.

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example.

Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years.

I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music.

I don't call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond.

People don't realize I'm a very spiritual person.

As I put out more music, I really want to get to the point where people feel like my show is a must-see.

You can go up to the editor of 'Vogue,' and she might think I have horrible style, or maybe she thinks I have great style. Who knows? I don't really know too much about it: I just know what I like and what I don't like. I love clothes and making my own clothes and shoes, like I got to do with Adidas.

Are you willing to give up what you love, for who you love?

Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are.

Man the life of a workaholic ... You either on ya work or just workin on it.

I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man.

I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.

Sometimes I feel like putting on a blazer with just a T-shirt.

G.O.O.D. Music is just real tastemakers, man. Kanye's a real tastemaker. One thing that I feel is tight about G.O.O.D. is that a lot of people have their own style, and you can see that. My style is different than Pusha's, it's different than Cudi's. But it's also slightly similar 'cause we have some similar tastes.

Even though it's tiring, I'm having the time of my life.

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

I waste a lot of money buying the same pair of shoes.

I think it's tacky to have chains that go all the way down to your crotch.

People in college, if you're getting recognized for getting good grades, you're finally famous. If you get recognized for playing the drums, if you're being recognized for making good ass beats, good ass raps, you're finally famous.

I got this tiger head ring that's similar to a Cartier ring. I had my jeweler Sean from Detroit make it similar to the Cartier ring, but gold and diamonded-out. That's my Detroit tiger. It's made with two different golds - the bottom is yellow and the top is gold.

Bout to inhale like I'm finnin to see Satan. We're Satanic. It's the law.

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.

I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible.

A man that can master patience can master anything.

I got a dream that's worth more than my reality.

Lil Wayne is somebody who I used to ride to school listening to in my car. You know from Tha Carter to Tha Carter II, to Dedication 1 & 2, to Da Drought, his mixtapes. You know you got that for him as him being a rap legend, somebody who you look up to.

I probably wasted a couple of thousand dollars on some dumb-ass clothes.

I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.

I feel like that's why we're here on this earth; to manifest what we want, to live a life, to have the best sex, drink the best champagne and to live it up and control it. That's what it's all about.

Eminem was the biggest rapper in the world, but I didn't know Eminem and I didn't know anybody who knew Eminem.

I'm a sneakerhead. I probably have a couple hundred pair of shoes. I got all sorts of shoes.

It was just cool to see my friends so inspired, and I'm by no means the biggest rapper in the world, but I'm on my way up. I feel like I'm going to keep going and delivering good music every time. It was cool to show people that it's real to do what you want to do.

As a crew, G.O.O.D. Music is taking it to levels that really haven't been done collectively. Kanye is someone who knows how to make classic albums, a true thinker. He got me in the mindset of being a true thinker and always planning out every move you got going.

I'm a Detroit player, they set styles.

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.

Girls only say I hate you to the guys that they love

I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first single, 'My Last,' which I feel like is more pop than anything - I was originally singing the chorus on there. I'm used to that. I've always had fresh melodies.

It was probably in third grade - I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, super fake. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains. The first real chain I got was from Kanye. It was a Jacob the Jeweler Kanye West Jesus piece.

Working with Kanye is one of the greatest things ever. It's also one of the most nerve-wracking things ever. He's, like, the most critical, particular, artistic person ever.

Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.

I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it.

I've definitely stolen a lot of things.

My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica,
Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah,
Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke.

There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own.

The higher the goal, the harder the climb, but after that the bigger the muscle the, smarter the mind.

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain't CC'ed

Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.

I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives.

God made me in my beautiful form so I'm just trying to execute it.

I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.

I want to win some awards, sell more records - just do whatever I want.

I'm not compromising myself in any way, I love just doing whatever I want and showing people it's real.

There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them.

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City.

I feel like you should be confident in whatever you do, and a lot of my new music [that's coming out] I want people to judge more so than the music I've put out recently, because I feel like it's really changed a lot.

I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

I write my own lyrics completely on my own. Sometimes I have people helping me with concepts or like choruses and stuff sometimes, but mostly I write all my own songs by myself, especially the verses and a lot of the choruses.