Quotes by Big Sean

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

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

Kanye didn't sign me to hold my hand and walk me through my career. He signed me because he believed in me as an artist and gave me a co-sign. I didn't see that at first. I saw it as him about to hold my hand, and I'm about to be the biggest artist because he's the biggest artist, you know?

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.

Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica,

Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah,

Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke.

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

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.

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.

Working with Kanye is one of the greatest things ever. It's also one of the most nerve-wracking things ever. He's, like, the most critical, particular, artistic person ever.

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 and 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I've definitely stolen a lot of things.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I got this tiger head ring that's similar to a Cartier ring. I had my jeweler Sean from Detroit make it similar to the Cartier ring, but gold and diamonded-out. That's my Detroit tiger. It's made with two different golds -- the bottom is yellow and the top is gold.

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

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

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.

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.

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

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.

With the super duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style.

People who tend to listen to my music have come back and said, 'Yo, this is my anthem. This is what I live by.'

It's a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date -- she'll like that.

My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master's from NYU. She wanted to be an actress, so when she graduated, she had a dream, and she started following it. She moved to New York and took acting classes with people like Denzel Washington.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I don't really write any of my raps down. The same, Kanye don't write any of his raps down. Common. It's easy that way. For me, personally, I figure I will lose some of the inspiration in the time of me writing it down, or I'll say it a certain way because I wrote it a certain way.

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.

As a crew, G.O.O.D. Music is taking it to levels that really haven't been done collectively. Kanye is someone who knows how to make classic albums, a true thinker. He got me in the mindset of being a true thinker and always planning out every move you got going.

Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.

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.

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man -- Motor City.

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma -- and to a lot of people -- an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music.

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.

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.

People don't realize I'm a very spiritual person.

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

I'm a Detroit player, they set styles.

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

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

I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach.

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.