Big sean quotes

I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it.

It was probably in third grade - I had a super fake, gold herringbone chain. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains.

Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything.

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky. I feel like tasteful is very unique...it's not necessarily wearing a bunch of chains - that could be either tasteful or tacky. It just depends on how you wear them and what kind of chains they are.

I don't call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond.

I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.

Even though it's tiring, I'm having the time of my life.

I feel like Im 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.

Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.

From the inside looking out you can never see how it looks from the outside looking in.

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

I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives.

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.

Man the life of a workaholic... You either on ya work or just workin on it.

There are so many people with great work ethics that I've been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.

Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.

I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.

I think it's tacky to have chains that go all the way down to your crotch.

To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times.

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

A man that can master patience can master anything.

I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that.

Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain't CC'ed

I'm not compromising myself in any way, I love just doing whatever I want and showing people it's real.

Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I’m just doing better than what everybody projected.

I want to win some awards, sell more records - just do whatever I want.

Chains and stuff are nice, don't get me wrong I love them and I wear chains, but I can do without it.

It has no color to it. If you can rap good, you can rap good. I look at Mac Miller, who’s one of my homies, and I look at Wiz Khalifa, who’s one of my homies, and I don’t look at Mac different because he’s white. He’s my homie.

I write my own lyrics completely on my own. Sometimes I have people helping me with concepts or like choruses and stuff sometimes, but mostly I write all my own songs by myself, especially the verses and a lot of the choruses.

Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves.

As I put out more music, I really want to get to the point where people feel like my show is a must-see.

I feel like that's why we're here on this earth; to manifest what we want, to live a life, to have the best sex, drink the best champagne and to live it up and control it. That's what it's all about.

It's evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.

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.

It's easier to record in LA than in New York and Detroit, because the space in LA is green, and there's sunshine, and I need all those positive vibes.

God made me in my beautiful form so I'm just trying to execute it.

I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.

Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it.

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

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name.

I want people to feel like they can do anything.

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

Lil Wayne is somebody who I used to ride to school listening to in my car. You know from Tha Carter to Tha Carter II, to Dedication 1 & 2, to Da Drought, his mixtapes. You know you got that for him as him being a rap legend, somebody who you look up to.

Ariana is a huge supporter of mine; she's a big fan - she told me that when I met her. She's cool, her voice is crazy, she's got a great, great voice.

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.

I got a dream that's worth more than my reality.

In the studio, I always put on National Geographic for inspiration. Looking at lions eating gazelles, all that type of stuff.

I work really hard - that doesn't mean I deserve anything, but it's really cool to see the positive reaction people give to something you worked so hard on. It's one of the best feelings.

I'd be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullsh*t that I hear a day.

You live and you learn, man. I've learned you can't wait on anybody. You have to raise your awareness yourself.

Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He's somebody who I've seen put that grind in over the years.

I think just dreaming big and having aspirations is important. So you know I want to be the greatest of all time at what I do and if you're not trying to be the greatest at what you do then you're not doing it for real.

I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot - I want to start my own dynasty eventually.

I'm the type to have a bullet-proof condom and still gotta pull out.

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.

It was just cool to see my friends so inspired, and I'm by no means the biggest rapper in the world, but I'm on my way up. I feel like I'm going to keep going and delivering good music every time. It was cool to show people that it's real to do what you want to do.

I'm not that big, physically. I'm just big where it counts - I got a big heart!

The higher the goal, the harder the climb, but after that the bigger the muscle the, smarter the mind.

Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.

I'm just a Westside lover, I leave females in my sheets and all my feelings in a rubber.

Bout to inhale like I'm finnin to see Satan. We're Satanic. It's the law.

People in college, if you're getting recognized for getting good grades, you're finally famous. If you get recognized for playing the drums, if you're being recognized for making good ass beats, good ass raps, good ass interviews like this one, you're finally famous.

Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.

Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you'll have some of the best times of your life.

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

High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

Gettin' dressed up for court, that's a law suit

I probably wasted a couple of thousand dollars on some dumb-ass clothes.

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

Girls only say I hate you to the guys that they love

I feel like you should be confident in whatever you do, and a lot of my new music [that's coming out] I want people to judge more so than the music I've put out recently, because I feel like it's really changed a lot.

Eminem was the biggest rapper in the world, but I didn't know Eminem and I didn't know anybody who knew Eminem.

Are you willing to give up what you love, for who you love?

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica, Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah, Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke.

Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view.

The best advice I have been given is to live in the moment, as cliché as that sounds. It's crazy.