Earl Sweatshirt Quotes

You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there forever.

"Sunday" was the best one I think I made.

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.

I don't know why it's difficult to admit that I miss you.

Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.

When I got home, I was trying to figure out how to be home. Like, be home in a sense that had nothing to do with music.

I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.

At first I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice I guess.

Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.

Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.

That sums up why it's crazy to meet Paul McCartney because he's the type of n - - that needs that.

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.

Touring with the record out - shows are so much more fun now that n - - s know what I'm talking about.

SK La'Flare's a legend. It was me, him and Vince, and Frank would come through sometimes and s - - and he was, like, fully rapping. N - - s was on it.

"Centurion" is probably one of my favorites [of RZA Day ].

Miscommunication is the number one cause of all problems; communication is your bridge to other people. Without it, there's nothing. So when it's damaged, you have to solve all these problems it creates.

I always try and tell dudes that are younger than me is that because of the Internet everyone can just be by themselves doing something, but the importance of a group is being able to have some sort of competition.

In a world where like everyone's so accessible now, to say something new in an article that you can't find out about a n--- through his Twitter or like Googling him or some s--- is rare. Just like how a good song is rare.

My beats are pretty s - - y, though. I don't know how they work.

All rappers are princesses like me.

The words that are coming out of my mouth and how I mean them, it's so much different.

Rapping is the only time I'm serious.

I've been YouTube surfing a lot lately so I'll Shazam a song that I find or some s - - and type that in on YouTube and just go through all the relateds for it. So it's been a lot of random jazz s - - lately. Like I found Lonnie Liston Smith, and Ahmad Jamal, s - - like that. So that's been very tight.