Malone: “I just want to keep making music and see where everything goes.”

Malone: "I like to be quiet and play guitar and just chill."

Malone: "I'm just trying to make music everybody can get happy to and vibe to and turn up to. So long as I keep making good music, everything's going to be OK."

Malone: "I got FL studios; I looked up how to make beats and how to record myself, and then I just started making music from there."

Malone: "Whenever I'm trying to have a good time and stay in a positive mood, I listen to hip-hop. Because it's fun. I think hip-hop is important because it brings people together in a beautiful, happy way."

Malone: “In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.”

Malone: “They told me to quit, I don’t listen to what I’m told.”

Malone: "There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen."

Malone: “You don’t gotta be perfect, just keep it real.”

Malone: “Nobody wanted me to put out White Iverson. They said wait. I said I don’t have time to wait. I don’t have any money, what am I going to lose? I put it out the next day and it went bananas.”

Malone: "I'm trying to make music that I like, and I love hip-hop. At the same time, I love guitar. I love rock and everything."

Malone: "What I think is so cool is, music is becoming so genre-less and just so liquid and anything can be anything. Just stepping out of comfort zones and maybe doing rock, maybe doing country, maybe putting it all together with all different sorts of genres I think is cool — because there is no genre and it's just music at that point."

Malone: "You just got with the flow because life is just all about how you feel."

Malone: "Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to make."

Malone: "If you like something, rock it. If you want to rock a cape every day, go for it."

Malone: "I started making music... I guess I was 12, and I started playing 'Guitar Hero.' And you know, it got to a point where on expert, you can only exceed to a certain point. And so, you know, I was like, 'Let's play real guitar. Let's not waste more time.' So, I got my mom, I told her to buy me a guitar for Christmas, and I started making music then."

Malone: "I think a show is more of an interacting with fans than you just singing songs."

Malone: “It has been wild, you know? I started out just putting a song that I made out on the Internet without being sure if anyone was going to like it, and it took me on tour around the world with Justin Bieber. It’s been amazing!”

Malone: “Your growth scares people who don’t want to change.”

[On his alter-ego, Post Limón]

Malone: "The suit is super country, so I'd say Post Limón would be a country singer, and he would just sing love songs about Doritos all day."

Malone: "I don't know what people think of me."

Malone: “As an artist, it’s never really enough. You always want to strive to get bigger and better and push the limits of what you can actually do.”

Malone: "It's not normal for a white guy to get corn rows; a lot of people judged me. I like the way it looks, so you have to be confident."

Malone: “I want to meet someone who makes me feel the way music does.”

Malone: “I feel like being in the music industry changes a lot. You’re exposed to so many different types of sounds and so much different type of stuff. Once you have an established song, you can really come out of your shell and experiment with the sound you want to make.”

Malone: “I’m not worried about making a certain type of music or sticking to one type of music.”

Malone: "Hip-hop and country aren't too far different: They got shiny suits and the boots and the guitars with their names on it. I was infatuated with that type of stuff."

Malone: “I don’t want something anyone can have.”

Malone: “There’s always going to be setbacks; there’s always going to be knockdowns. There’s always going to be people telling you, hey you suck.”

Malone: “I didn’t have no friends or nothing. I was a nerdy kid.”

Malone: “I am just creating the music I enjoy to make, and people seem to enjoy it.”

Malone: "There's great hip-hop songs where they talk about life and they spit that real sh*t, but right now, there's not a lot of people talking about real shit. Whenever I want to cry, whenever I want to sit down and have a nice cry, I'll listen to some Bob Dylan."

Malone: “I’m trying to bring a little bit of every type of sauce into one type of sound. Something that’s really fresh.”

Malone: “The old country singers, they were badass, they were the American badass people. I’m an American badass. At 40 years old, I’m gonna be a country singer.”