Zitat des Tages von Macklemore:
I'm as honest as I can be.
There's this tendency to be like, 'Where's the negative stuff? How valid is the criticism?' But honestly, what people think of me is none of my business. If I live on the Internet looking for public approval, I'm going to be miserable.
The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.
I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
Bullying is a national epidemic.
The question is, What type of human do I want to be? How do I want to use my platform? Do I want to be safe, under the umbrella of my white privilege? Or do I want to push back and resist?
I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.
The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
I got sober, and I got happy again.
I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.
You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.