Chance: "'Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving."

Chance: "Something I try to instill in others is to just be a good person. It's a decision you make a million times a day. But if you just keep trying, good stuff comes to you in an ordained way."

Chance: "Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story."

Chance: "The idea of 'talking white,' a lot of people grew up around that, just the idea that if you speak with proper diction and come off as educated that it's not black and that it's actually anti-black and should be considered only something that white people would do."

Chance: "I'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man."

Chance: "I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice."

Chance: "I've come to understand that art is awesome and beautiful because it's a reflection of life - but it's just a reflection, and the real thing is my daughter."

Chance: "I think that's always the goal of art, is to make people ask themselves questions."

Chance: "The weird thing about rap is that you don't get compared in the same way that athletes do, even though it's probably the most competitive sport in music. In basketball, they look at a player and say: 'This guy was the best in his prime at this sport.' But in rap it's not until you're dead or retired that people think about it like that."

Chance: "I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time."

Chance: "There's a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something and giving them information and getting feedback. There are so many questions that I'm trying to ask, and I'm still so far from being done saying what I gotta say."

Chance: "I hate eating vegetables. The only vegetables I eat are lettuce on a burger."

Chance: "People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!"

Chance: "I still think that God means everything to everyone, whether they understand it or not or can see for themselves."

Chance: "Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there."

Chance: "One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.'"

Chance: "Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink."

Chance: "For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people."

Chance: "When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place that do that. Chief Keef did it; Kids These Days did it; Cool Kids did it. And I'm the next Cool-Kids-Chief, if you will."

Chance: "The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books."

Chance: "I don't really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me."

Chance: "I didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds."

Chance: "I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird."

Chance: "I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just that. People wanna romanticize it and say, 'There's two sides to it, and it's a beautiful love/hate story of violence and music.' But it's really just a very scummy place where people don't have respect for other people's lives."

Chance: "With 'Acid Rap,' I allowed myself to be really open-minded and free with who I allowed into my musical space. I wanted to make a cohesive product, but I also just want to make a bunch of dope songs inspired by whatever sounds I liked."

Chance: "Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college."