Big K.R.I.T.

I think us, especially as black people, we don't necessarily talk about our feelings enough or talk to someone about our feelings. ”

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap. ”

I love tearing people's speakers up. ”

Adele was introduced to me by a guitarist named Mike Hartnett that plays for a band called Rehab. We was just riding around, and he was like, 'Man have you heard this soul singer Adele?' and I was like 'Nah!' and we just rode to the whole CD, and it got to 'Hometown Glory,' and I was like, 'Man I have to sample that!' ”

Everyone needs a lay-up at some point in life - just somebody to look out, something good to happen in your life to kind of push you forward. ”

People will reach out because they know I'm trying to put my best forward when it comes to subject matter and creation of song. ”

Dealing with business and trying to create never mixes for me. ”

If I could have stayed independent from the jump, then, maybe, things would have been different. 'Return of 4Eva' would have been an album instead of a mixtape. ”

A record like 'Price of Fame' - when you do get this success, how do you treat it, or how do you let it treat you? How does it affect your family and friends and the people around you? ... And I don't mind telling people what I've been through when it comes to the pressure I put on myself of wanting to be the best and the greatest. ”

I never lost my faith. ”