Drake

How bout you and all your morals in that outfit that you borrowed/Make the most out of tonight and worry bout it all tomorrow.

I really put a lot of and emotion into my project in order to evoke emotion.

What you'll always get from me is a variety of emotions. Whenever you listen to my CD, whether you're the hardest dude or the bitterest cat, I'll give you a real story to think about.

I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard.

I feel like I'm truly and genuinely proud and unafraid. I'm not scared of who I am.

I think with the right person and the right music, people from all walks of life can come together. I know that's what my life was about. I've seen it all, so that's what I want to bring to the table.

Being bi-racial and being young along with being American and Canadian [allows me to] try and cover all the bases and expand my fan base to a level that has yet to be seen.

I don't really put a lot of swearing in my music. I want everybody to be able to enjoy it.

I want everybody to feel comfortable with vibing with Drake. I don't want to limit my music to people based on their race and/or age.

Everyone just wants to see what you can do for yourself. People think that just because I have some big ridiculous number on my myspace page that it's all easy for me. People are interested but I don't come home to labels waiting outside my house.

I still just like everybody else need to meet quotas with my spins, with my buzz and make my way into the office. It has to be undeniable; the world has to know about you before Jay-Z makes a call.

I have a fan base that some people say is equal to that of signed artists' maybe even more.

I am right at the bottom compared to everybody else with press kits and demos and trying to get meetings. That's what I love about music and hate about it. That's why I respect people that are successful in the music business because you really have to build it from the ground up.

I know clothing very well and I'm sure I will get into fashion eventually.

Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

I don't know why everyone is making dance movies. I auditioned for three dance movies in the past two months and for one of them I just couldn't do it.

I personally don't enjoy films that bring black people down. I find that a majority of the films that black people are starred in nowadays, are ones focused on gang violence or dancing.

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

I never plan to stop acting, I take it very seriously.

When I was young I was working with a lot of people being out in the south. My uncle wrote for Al Green and I was around Al a lot.

When I write I like to just say everything that people think about but never express vocally. I just get deep into it; I'm a bit obsessive about music.

I can make a record like the [previous] one I put out, but I don't want to do that because I want to set the bar so high for myself. I don't want to do it like everyone else.

It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.

Once you make something that people enjoy then you are forced to promote it. Instead of just going right into the next project, you have to be where they need you to be and do what they need you to do.

I kind of forget what it's like to be a dude who grew up in the south sometimes. I want to refresh my memory and remember why I love it [there] so much.

I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life.

I like the fact that I have two names because I find that in this industry you have to have dual personalities [especially] being a transitional entertainer [being an actor going into music]. It's not that I'm pretending to be somebody else but it's just that the people that I act with, the Directors, Producers and Agents, can't really relate to what I talk about.

Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

Haters will broadcast your failure, but whisper your success.

Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans.