Sean: "I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own."

Sean: "Everything is just a technique. I had a good technique of when having to do my schoolwork, because that mean I could go do the rap sh*t."

Sean: "Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length - how short they are, how small they are."

Sean: "I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible."

Sean: "I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it's definitely worth it."

Sean: "I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own."

[On doing music]

Sean: "I treated it like it was a job before it was a job."

Sean: "It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got."

Sean: "I feel like I changed hip-hop."

Sean: "You're in good spirits when you create and produce great music. All situations inspire music in different ways, man, from good situations, bad situations, depression, falling in love, falling out of love. I've been going through all those type of things."

Sean: "When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example."

Sean: "I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold."

Sean: "I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man."

Sean: "Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I'm in the middle of something and I can't get it done, I'll jot it down, but I never write a rap out, ever."

Sean: "I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided."

Sean: "I definitely consider myself a Christian. There's things that I believe in, there's things I have a self-belief on. I know I got a great relationship with God and the universe. I just believe in being a righteous person and karma. Doing unto others as you would have done unto you. I really want to help teach that."

Sean: "There's a lot of shoes that people consider high-end fashion, from Balenciaga to this and that or whatever, and the Pro Models are very similar to me. They're very fashionable to me - the design and the shape of them. I just like them."

Sean: "I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color."

Sean: "The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as much as they could, so they put me in a private school when I was super young."

Sean: "I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school. I was the type to get good grades; I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap."

Sean: "Sometimes I feel like putting on a blazer with just a T-shirt."

Sean: "Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul - nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything."

Sean: "I waste a lot of money buying the same pair of shoes."

Sean: "My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I'm supposed to do, that keeps me going."

Sean: "Adidas is just right. They've been, like, a partner I couldn't be more thankful for. I really feel like they've helped increase my popularity. You know? It's tight to be able to attach to their brand and be able to add whatever I can offer to their brand."

Sean: "When I'm home, I cook my own dinner, all organic."

Sean: "I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song."

Sean: "I usually sing a lot on my mixtapes. I sing a lot on songs that just really aren't singles. Even my first single, 'My Last,' which I feel like is more pop than anything - I was originally singing the chorus on there. I'm used to that. I've always had fresh melodies."