Lupe Fiasco Quotes

I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

You need to think about the system that you live in and the comforts that you have. But the comforts that you have that are causing the discomforts of a massive amount of people around the world.

I don't like to hear myself sing. So to get comfortable hearing myself sing, I sang in another accent.

I'm not in competition with nobody. I want to make good music for my fans who want it, who enjoy it, who learn something from it. And that's what it is.

For me, I never wore my religion on my sleeve, you know what I'm saying? I never put myself out there as Lupe Fiasco, he's Muslim, he's from Chicago, he likes to ride a skateboard.

I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.

Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.

I don't think that politics are as complex as people like to make them seem or out to be.

When I retire, I want to step away on a positive note. What you put out into the world comes back to you. You actually change the world with what you do. I want to put some good in the world.

First of all, you are not really that supreme.

The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?

People see your reviews sometimes, and it's so good that they think I wrote it. And I'm like, "OK, yeah, I wrote it. And I own the company that put it out."

For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

You always wrestle with depression, you always wrestle with those things, because the events and the experiences are still there, and the things that take place are still happening.

I went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller is the motivational speaker.

I have a lot of fans in the Tea Party, and they disagree with me vehemently. But they're fans, so we meet and connect and talk, so I'm open to everything.