Carson: "I’m not scared to try new things."

Carson: "I don’t write. I’m making songs every day. It’s the same thing every time. It depends on the beat and the song. I can make a fast song. I can take my time. It just depends on the song."

Carson: "I don’t make my music for the critics."

Carson: "When I’m in the studio, I’m not like, ‘Oh I hope this person really likes it this time,’ if they didn’t like it last time. I don’t give a fuck at all! I didn’t even give a fuck the first time!"

Carson: "I feel like there’s no fucking rules, we can all pretty much do whatever the fuck we want."

Carson: "I make the kind of music that I make for the same reason why I wear the clothes that I wear. I can almost tell what a person’s style is through the music that they are making."

Carson: "I just breathe it at the music. I leave my emotions in the music."

Carson: "I try to put that energy out because, you’ve got a lot of people in thisworld who feel like you need a female. But it’s like, at one point youmight? But right now, you just might not."

Carson: "With songs like that I just hear the beat, and then I just magically already know what I want."

Carson: "With being an artist, once you paint a picture? There’s gonna be motherfuckers who don’t like the picture. There’s gonna be motherfuckers who think it’s the ugliest picture in the world! It could be the biggest picture in the world, and there’ll still be like it’s ugly or you’re not a good artist."

Carson: "I gota girlfriend, I ain’t gonna lie. But it’s a long-distance thing, so it’s different."

Carson: "There’s always gonna be those opinions, whether it’s somebody with a following, or just some random motherfucker saying it. And if you’re gonna be focusing on everybody’s opinion? Well, that says a lot about your artistry."

Carson: "I feel like I always keep a chip on my shoulder. Just to keep going. I’m super self-motivating."

Carson: "My producers send me beats all day, but I don’t go and listen to them unless I’m in the studio and I can actually pull em up. Because there’s no sense in me listening to em unless I can do what I do."

Carson: "I’m tryna perform all new shit. I’m tired of performing that other shit!"

V Magazine: Rules don’t sit too well with Ken. This is a guy who once slapped a teacher, got kicked out of military school after just three months for having a phone, and who so identified with possibly he most unhinged party movie of all time, 2012’s Project X—with its car in the swimming pool, rampant raunch, garden gnome full of ecstasy, and burning trees in the neighbors’ yard—that he named his debut full-length after it