You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

If we're deciding about merch pieces, t-shirts or hats, they have to be well designed and cool enough for somebody to want to buy it and then wear it and walk around advertising me and my music.

I love being in a room in front of an audience who cares about the music, who knows the music, and who has lived with the music. It's kind of like an experience you share. I'm on stage performing it, but they're singing the words, too.

Much respect to Eminem - he's the greatest.

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.

Me personally, I will always be a fan at the end of the day. No matter how big this gets, I still look up to other artists and people I respect creatively.

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.

My mom was a single parent.

My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.

Me personally, I'm real close to my mom. She raised me. It was a single-parent home situation. She did everything: cooked, worked two jobs, came home late, but she loved me to death.

I'm really attracted to girls who are passionate about music because that's what I'm obsessed with.

I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.

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.

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.

Chance The Rapper makes some of the greatest music out, and he build his brand up organically, and the fans have reacted to it.

I love the road. The closest thing to home, for me, is being on a tour bus, ironically.

Touring is starting to feel more like home than home does.