Explore Quotes by Chance The Rapper

I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.

If I was to buy a suit, I'd probably go to Men's Wearhouse - because you're going to like the way you look; they guarantee it.

Anything is respectable in its own realm.

I think #BlackLivesMatter is a huge campaign that is important and integral to our advancement as a people.

Something I try to instill in others is to just be a good person. It's a decision you make a million times a day. But if you just keep trying, good stuff comes to you in an ordained way.

I think it's very important for America that we're represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.

Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.

When I was going out and trying to fully give glory to God, in my setting, I feared that people would be dismissive of it, like, 'This is Christian rap. I'm not trying to hear it.' But it's the total opposite: People were very accepting of it.

One of my biggest fears with 'Coloring Book' was that it would be labeled. I hate labels. I never sought out for people to recognize it as a gospel album.

I think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.

I don't consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.

I've come to understand that art is awesome and beautiful because it's a reflection of life - but it's just a reflection, and the real thing is my daughter.

There are cases where you can say a lot more in a hook than you can by making things more complex in a verse.

There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.

I'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.

I love theater, and I've always been a huge movie buff.

I want to travel overseas and help out people all over the world.

I didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds.

I used to be the class clown. I was the funny kid. That's why it was so hard for people to understand that I rap, because for a long time, they didn't take me seriously for who I was. By, like, eighth grade, I was really rapping.

I'm just trying to be an example for all the young artists that are becoming artists every day and working on their craft and trying to help them avoid the pitfalls of the upper management in music and the non-music side of music.

I want to tell people to read 'The Prince' by Machiavelli - check that one out. It's just changed my attack so - I think so much more inwardly.