Wiz Khalifa

“I don’t chase after anyone, If you wanna walk out of my life, then I’ll hold the fucking door open for you.”

“Worrying is stupid. It's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.”

“The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz.”

“'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name.”

“Yeah, baggy jeans are done. Nobody wants to wear big, baggy jeans. Baggy jeans are completely over with.”

“My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make ever...”

“I like a lot of old-school R&B, soul, and classic rock.”

“There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.”

“When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I h...”

“Philly is more East Coast than Pittsburgh. It's closer to New Jersey and New York, so the vibe is way more fast-paced.”

“I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.”

“I groom, but it doesn't take me a long time to get to what people see.”

“I'm always hustling.”

“I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something.”

“My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.”

“Every day is new. It's just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.”

“Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.”

“I sleep on my stomach with my head under a bunch of pillows so if someone wants to come in and try to kill me they can't tell if I'm there or not, so they'll just leave.”

“Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.”