Advice number one: listen to your gut - it's never gonna lead you wrong. Number two: trust yourself. The root of everything is self-belief. — Russ Copy Share Image
I don't deviate - once you get validated for being you, I don't know why you would deviate. I stick to my gut and my taste. — Russ Copy Share
“Never make a promise that you can't really keep it. But if you did in any case try to keep it anyway, whatever hard, troublesome or even painful.” — Russ Copy Share
“Trust is easy to give but hard to keep also it's hard to achieve but easy to lose” — Russ Copy Share
I'm not sitting around, waiting for something to run across the Internet so I can go, 'Oh, that's what I'mma write about.' I just go around, live life, make music, and it's epic. — Russ Copy Share
When you're sitting in the basement trying to get on, you have no choice - you've gotta figure out how to make a song: 'I've gotta bang on these buttons until it sounds good.' — Russ Copy Share
“A full pure heart with empty pocket is much better than full pocket of money with no heart” — Russ Copy Share
Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts. — Russ Copy Share
I would have only doubted myself if I was really attached to the result of what I was doing, but I was always doing it and will always do it for the love of making songs, and if you liked it you liked it, if you didn't, you didn't. It was always pure and always will be pure. — Russ Copy Share
Trends die. That's the natural thing about a trend. It's natural for people to be followers and be sheep and go with a trend. — Russ Copy Share
That's the thing: I'm not opposed to working with people. I'm just not one of these people that feels the need to hop around the industry and get this guy's beat and get this guy's hook. — Russ Copy Share
When I made 'What They Want,' I was going crazy. When I made 'Losin Control,' I was going crazy, when I made all the songs that are on my Soundcloud, every time I was out, I went crazy, like it was still the first song that I made. — Russ Copy Share