Earl Sweatshirt Quotes

"Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you."

"Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates."

"You can't really start living until you can live with yourself."

"People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face."

"People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon."

"Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it."

"In every person, you have a world of personalities and souls, a world of perspectives that you can share. You can get into anyone's shoes. You've got to be willing to stare at the ugliest part of yourself and deal with it."

"My world is kind of small."

"I'm a weirdo, but I have a very strong moral code."

"It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny."

"All rappers are princesses like me."

"Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture."

"I'll always regret how I recorded 'Burgundy' 'cause it's not how I felt. The words that were coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different."

"Toronto is like a city of grandmas."

"I'm just, like, really about not lying to myself."

"Both of my parents had me reading at a really young age. Maybe it was a hereditary thing, but my mom always had my nose in a book. I've always been a bookworm."

"Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight."

"At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy."

"Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group."

"My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older."

"It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste."

"Rapping is the only time I'm serious."

"It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not."

"At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess."

"Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all."

"I've read some pretty harsh criticisms of my music, but some of them I agreed with and actually sat with me."

"I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words."

"Drake loves moms."

"One day I hope to not have a Twitter, to be sick enough that I don't have to use the Internet."

"When I was little, when I was a kid, I used to sit in front of the TV and just say what the TV says. It's how I got good at imitating people."