Before anything, I wanted to be a rapper. I used to make beats and I would start singing to layer my beats and that's kind of how I realized I could sing. — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
I started off making beats when I was like 12. Then when I linked with people who make beats full time, I was like, 'Bet, now I can focus on writing and singing.' — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
I was reading Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death'. It's one of my favourites. — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
You work on something for so long that you become numb to it. Like, you don't even know how to listen to it because… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
If it feels good coming out, then I really don't care about anything else, for real. It's all about just having fun with it.… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
Music is my one opportunity to let out how I'm feeling when I'm not talking to a chick or my mom, you know what… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
I've always felt like I was observing everything, like I'm just looking out of the window, peeping how everybody is living and just penning… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
I want to own my masters. That's the main thing--owning all my music. — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
If you're my woman, you're somebody I give emotions to that I don't give to nobody else. You're my safe space. I don't want… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
I got a dog and am trying to elevate. I'm working out, eating healthier, reading books. Making 'Make it Out Alive' is going to… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
I could always sing just playing around, but I ain't want to be no singer. I thought that was lame. — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
If you can look in the mirror and say I love myself, that's going to affect your interactions with people who look like you. — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
I think it's good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent. — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
I'd prefer for people to know that they're going to get some substance when they listen to my music versus hearing the same 'Oooh… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
The first couple of times I went out and heard my voice or heard people listening when I wasn't the one playing it for… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
I'll listen to certain things that I made back then, and I'm like, 'I wish I could have done this, I would've done that'.… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
