Lil Uzi Vert

“I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.”

“I got a lot of influences. I got relevant influences today. I got influences that you wouldn't even think of. I'm very influenced by Marilyn Manson. His style is ridiculous. Like, honestly,...”

“You can't say I look like this person or sound like this person exactly because I made it my own. I'm pretty, pretty influenced by myself right now.”

“I'm a real big Marilyn Manson fan. I get a lot of my styles from him. Not even musically - living-wise, too. Marilyn Manson definitely shows me you shouldn't care what nobody say. I watched...”

“'Vert' is, like, straight to the top, like a vertical leap.”

“Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow. So I didn't want to go. I wanted to learn on my own with real life experiences.”

“Some guy was just like, 'You rap fast, man. Like a little machine gun,' and from that moment, I was Lil Uzi.”

“Mike Jones, Ying Yang Twins, then a little later, Wiz Khalifa and Meek Mill, too. It was the repetitive stuff with Mike Jones when he would give out his number, and I also like his style. Ba...”

“The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That's why people feel each song differently. I get all my vibes from rock music, you know? All my melodie...”

“A whole bunch of 'ayes' and a whole bunch of 'yeahs.' That's it. That's all I do. I say yeah. I tell myself that I'm not gon' go over 80. I say, like, 79 yeahs, and it works. We what you cal...”

“One thing rap and rock have in common, a lot of it is focused on negativity. I like dark stuff.”

“I want to be as big as I can be. I want to be one of the biggest artists. I want to be remembered like, 'He is crazy. He is phenomenal.' I just want to be one of the biggest.”

“I really didn't want to rap; I was just a regular kid.”

“The thing that makes me different from any other rapper is that I usually talk real crazy in my songs.”

“I never wanted to be no rapper.”

“I remember, when I first rapped, I was writing raps. I don't write raps at all; I stopped early. I don't know - it seems like every day I find something a little bit easier.”

“I like to look cool and dress nice. Lil Uzi is a rock star. Just know that.”

“I played the coronet first, and then I upgraded to the trumpet. First song I learned on there was 'Hot Cross Buns.'”