Macklemore

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.