LAROI: "I hate feeling like I’m having a forced conversation, I just hate talking about myself, to be honest. I’d rather not talk at all."

LAROI: "And I love working, that's my life. I'm a lonely person anyway. I don't like being around a load of people so I can work on myself and think."

LAROI: "It's hard for me to trust people, and especially girls it's - I don't really like doing the whole opening-up thing with girls."

LAROI: "It's hard enough being American and trying to make it in an American world, but being Australian, you're from a whole different country and have a whole different way of doing things."

LAROI: "I dunno - it's like, again, Juice was super big for me in terms of inspiration, and I learned a lot from him in terms of his recording process and stuff like that."

LAROI: "I just have a really strong mind and I just believe in myself a lot."

LAROI: “People don’t consume music the same way anymore. People want to listen to a 12-song project, at most. They chew stuff up and spit it out really quickly. Imagine if I had put ‘Tragic,’ ‘Without You’ and ‘Stay’ all in a 30-song thing [at once]. Who knows if any of those songs might’ve even caught?”

LAROI: "I just love making music. That’s the drive. Just purely the love of making music."

LAROI: "Anybody wherever I've ever been in my life, one thing they can always say good or bad, I was always doing music and I always wanted to be a rapper."

LAROI: "It's been an interesting life. I feel like I'm 40 years old at the age of 16."

LAROI: "Keeling the energy and seeing the music translate in real life. Numbers, I’m grateful, but they don’t really get me as excited as [live shows]. I like seeing people jump to the music. I like seeing people sing the words."

LAROI: "I am really competitive. I take my basketball very seriously, even though I'm not really that good. I take it very seriously."

LAROI: "I just think you have to give people time to process the music. There are some songs that I hated when they first came out—or maybe I really liked them—but then it changes with time. I just make music and I put it out, and that’s good enough for me. I support my family. That’s how I measure success: the fact that I’m able to take care of my family. I don’t give a f*ck what number it is on any chart, as long as I’m still able to support my family and keep everybody happy."

[On what he plan's on doing for the rest of his life]

LAROI: "Just f*cking making music and making videos and just being happy."

LAROI: "I met Drake. That was crazy. Chief Keef, that was another crazy one. Obviously, people like Ski Mask The Slump God, that's my boy."

LAROI: "I just do whatever I think feels right, and I just make whatever comes to me. Same thing with the chart thing, that extra sh*t is for y’all. Not for me. I make the music, I put it out. Whatever they want to say is whatever…"

LAROI: "You have to have a mentality, you can't fail. You have to do it. That's what's helped me a lot."

LAROI: "I think I'll be doing music until I die, regardless of whether I'm popular or not. If I ever feel like people aren't receiving my music well anymore, I'll probably go to the backroads and become an executive or just sign artists."

LAROI: "Real ones connect, man. Real ones connect. He’s a really nice guy. He gave me lots of really good advice."