Top 30 Wiz Khalifa Quotes

People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.

When you’re from the East Coast or you’re from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don’t sound that way, people won’t label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.

I’m always hustling.

Brand names aren’t important to me at all.

I made my first mix tape when I was 14.

I don’t take time off.

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you’re going to be when you’re there.

I don’t have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

I started writing songs when I was eight.

There’s people who I admire like… Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.

I see myself as like the lead singer of a band or something.

I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.

Even with whatever people want to label me with, there are so many other sides to me.

I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.

I think wherever you go, when people hear good music, they will react to it.

I groom, but it doesn’t take me a long time to get to what people see.

I think hip-hop is really fun right now… and that’s why people are using dance beats and singing more.

‘Khalifa’ is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name.

The name ‘Wiz’ comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz.

I’ve done a lot of work to get where I’m at, but I have to keep working.

I’ve been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I’m just going to keep that focus, but it’s going to be a family focus.

I love tattoos.

I don’t consider myself an A-list celebrity or a big dog, but every time I meet somebody, even rappers who’ve been in the game for years… they’re like, ‘Man, I’m trying to get on your level.’

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

Every day is new. It’s just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.

I never got nervous performing my own material.

My dad has been a big influence on me, because he’s always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.

The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what’s popular.

I have a huge span of fans, some who know all my radio songs and are familiar with my popular stuff and then some who have their own personal favorites. When I do my show, I try to take into consideration all those people.

Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they’re from.