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
When you're initially making music, you're kind of just shooting at the air. — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
If I have a collection of songs for an EP or mixtape, I create the narrative afterwards; but usually with an album,… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
I think it was 'The Diary of Alicia Keys'. That was the first time album I ever bought with my own money.… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation. — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
I know when it comes to the actual narrative of my solo music, it's its own thing. That's why I went out… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
My music is often written from the perspective of an extroverted introvert. — 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
