Earl Sweatshirt Quotes

You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there forever.

At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

I always try and tell dudes that are younger than me is that because of the Internet everyone can just be by themselves doing something, but the importance of a group is being able to have some sort of competition.

Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.

Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.

At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.

Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.

Im the bestest/on a bad day I spit asbestos

Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.

People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.

SK La'Flare's a legend. It was me, him and Vince, and Frank would come through sometimes and s - - and he was, like, fully rapping. N - - s was on it.

The words that are coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different.

It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

When I got home, I was trying to figure out how to be home. Like, be home in a sense that had nothing to do with music.

Shout out to the fathers that didn't raise us

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

"Sunday" was the best one I think I made.

I don't know why it's difficult to admit that I miss you.

All rappers are princesses like me.

I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.