Ferg: "If I was just to shut up, I wouldn't be a true artist."

Ferg: "Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery."

Ferg: "I make music for the whole world, not just one borough."

Ferg: "There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop."

Ferg: "I'm relevant because I fill a void for people who aren't doing what they want to do in life."

Ferg: "I might be more satisfied seeing my friends really come up than myself. I'm really happy for my success, but I can't really see it, because I'm myself working. You can see it; everyone around me can see it."

Ferg: "Racism been over. It's the old people that keep on holding on to it."

Ferg: "I thought I was half white or something because I only know white people as Ferguson as their last name."

Ferg: "I'm really into simple things - things you could wear every day."

Ferg: "I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles."

Ferg: "Me jumping on a song with Ariana Grande is just showing versatility, you know what I'm saying?"

Ferg: "I don't have a problem with how people receive the music. I feel like it's for everybody."

Ferg: "I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?"

Ferg: "Tour is fun."

Ferg: "I got a lot of fans who are not even into fashion. So they look at me and wear what I wear because it's cool or looks cool."

Ferg: "A lot of rappers been putting out a lot of sub-par visuals. I feel like the visuals could be better."

Ferg: "When I was growing up, I saw the Aaliyah shirts, the DMX shirts, or the collab shirts with DMX and Aaliyah when they had a single together. Those were the dope collage shirts with their faces all over it. They were doing cool things like that."

Ferg: "Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived."

Ferg: "People who are scared don't live life."

Ferg: "With 'Dope Walk,' I wanted to bring back kids dancing and having fun again. That's how it used to be in Harlem. I remember everybody Harlem-shaking and 'Chicken Noodle Soup'-ing. Those were some of the most fun and memorable times in my life."

Ferg: "It's kind of hard for you to be doing huge things and still be knowing what's happening on the street level."

Ferg: "I create art. It's kinda abstract."

Ferg: "'Trap Lord' is basically the writer of the hood. It's the kid that's from the hood, from the trap, who's going to preach to his friends and his homies. Because they're not going to sit in no church. So they listen to me instead of going to a church, because I understand them, and that's really what the 'Hood Pope' is."

Ferg: "I used to be a daredevil on BMX bikes."

Ferg: "No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no."

Ferg: "I'm happy, so I just want to project that happiness through my music to make other people happy."

Ferg: "Andy Warhol's art wasn't that interesting to me. He was more interesting to me as a person. He was art himself. I don't even think he was really into art, per se. He may have liked to do it, but I think he was more into people being into him."