G-Eazy: "Time is a finite resource that you can't get back. I have the same 24 hours you have, and you get the same 24 hours as me. As you rise, so does you chance for opportunity."

G-Eazy: "I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever."

G-Eazy: "Touring is starting to feel more like home than home does."

G-Eazy: "I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life."

G-Eazy: "I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it."

G-Eazy: "Music is one of the toughest industries, so I respect everybody who has travelled any distance, come far in this music business and achieved anything because it is so hard, and there are so many people out there these days."

G-Eazy: "When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own."

G-Eazy: "I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience."

G-Eazy: "I've always been an outsider to some extent."

G-Eazy: "What I actually do put much more weight on, in all honesty, is not being critically acclaimed - it's being respected by my OGs. When I talk to E-40 on the phone, every time I talk to him, I'm like, you know, if he tells me I'm doing good, I'm doing good."

G-Eazy: "I'm just doing the only thing I know how to do. There was never a plan B."

G-Eazy: "Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver."

G-Eazy: "I just have more Yves Saint Laurent in my closet, but it is pretty much the same - I just wear black almost 365 days of the year. I am married to it."

G-Eazy: "You'd die very sad if you tried to make everyone in the world happy, you know what I mean? You can't; no one can."

G-Eazy: "I think if you're constantly reinvesting into your content and giving the fans stuff, then you can continue to tour. You can continue to sell the merch and monetize the popularity of the brand."

G-Eazy: "Music isn't selling like it used to, but the one thing you can't steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt."

G-Eazy: "You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free."

G-Eazy: "I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder."

G-Eazy: "I've seen what you can do in this grassroots, do-it-yourself world, and I've seen how far that can get you. To be iconic, you still need the gatekeepers to open the doors."

G-Eazy: "Sometimes you wake up the next morning after making a lot of bad decisions and have this nonchalant reaction like, 'These Things Happen' - what can I say?"

G-Eazy: "If you're not out living, then you've got nothing to talk about."

G-Eazy: "I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets."

G-Eazy: "Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice."

G-Eazy: "When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own."

G-Eazy: "I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal."

G-Eazy: "I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff."

G-Eazy: "I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something."

G-Eazy: "It's definitely been a long, long... long, long, long, long, long journey since I was selling burnt CD's out of my backpack in downtown Oakland."