G-Eazy

We used to approach a small 400-person show like an arena show, as if I was a star and I was coming out on stage in front of screaming people and that I was to be larger than life.

I've never fit in anywhere in my life. Ever.

I'll be a Bay kid for the rest of my life. That's in my veins; that's in my bones.

That raw connection between the two performers is something you can't fully plan. You just go with it and get lost in that moment and feed off of each other.

If you're not out living, then you've got nothing to talk about.

When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.

I've definitely grown and evolved as a person, as an artist, you know. Just in terms of my style, my taste, my influences, everything... That's a part of being an artist I think.

I've always dreamt big and the dream is to keep making music.

I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

As we've added players to the team, like a videographer, a drummer, or a sound guy, we're trying to keep a bus full of A players and keep a culture where everybody is comfortable enough to push each other in their areas to be great.

When you're from the Bay Area, there's this chip on your shoulder that you inherently come up with, because us, as a region, we've been overlooked in the grand scheme of the history of the genre and the culture.