Action Bronson Quotes

"My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around - whatever."

"I live in the moment, and I reflect later."

"I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice."

"I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player."

"I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard."

"Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses."

"I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds."

"The first rappers I ever got into were Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, and Nas. Those are the guys. Those are the dudes that flipped my wig."

"'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking."

"I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession."

"I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family."

"I want to do an album with Steven Seagal."

"I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean."

"Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to."

"I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to."

"You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less."

"I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well."

"I grew up in the '90s. My goal isn't to be a '90s rapper, but I have little hints of '90s influence in my music. It's a modern approach to classic rap."

"Penmanship means a lot to me. I don't have cursive penmanship, though. I've created my own penmanship. It's very clear. Everyone can read it. I write things down all day long."

"My main influence is Kool G Rap and Cam'ron, pretty much. If you were to mix those two people up, I wish that would be me... This is my voice. I sound like nobody; I sound like me."

"I have to be able to rap. I don't have the look. I don't have the typical slim-dude, fancy-clothes look. That's not me. I have to be able to rap - there is no other choice, or else I get eaten alive."

"Everyone is trying to make these huge songs; I just make things that I want to listen to. Music that I will be comfortable listening to 10 years from now, that's my only thing."

"I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures."

"I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff."

"I'm naturally a nice person. I'm not trying to have any problems with people. I'm done with the drama and trouble. I want a stress-free life."

"The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do."

"When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down."

"I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast."

"I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that."

"I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio."