Top 33 Saint Jhn Quotes

The 4-year-old me was getting laughed in school at for being too dark.

Self-care. I got that from my mom. Even if we had nothing, we were always moisturized. So much Vaseline. In the dead of winter, I was hot. I had a whole other layer on.

My journey is where I’m at right? It’s the monopoly board of my life, and I’m making my rounds.

I was never afraid to try female products. I didn’t believe in those gender identities as it related to products.

I don’t want to give you the opportunity to find a box to put me in, figure it out later. When the records come out song by song, you’ll hear it and get to determine how you want to classify me.

I didn’t want to tell my story through my words in someone else’s voice.

I say I design music. I can imagine it and sort of picture it. I think about all of the things I do in the world and say that I’m designing it because it takes the same skill set.

My father wasn’t present, so my older brother felt like a father. He was only two years older than me so that was all I had.

I use Cetaphil face wash. It’s really simple. Nothing super fancy. I just feel like it needs to clean your face and not add or take away from anything.

I’m not a center-of-attention guy.

When an underdog wins, they win for everybody, because somebody gotta come through that door and break it open and make it possible.

I am building an archive. I don’t need for anyone to tell me that I matter. I am just going to record it for myself.

I was rapping because there were so many things that I wanted to say. There weren’t enough words for me to articulate all of the things that I wanted to say in a three minute song.

I think it takes an unbelievable amount of hours for anybody to master their craft.

I don’t think of myself as just a rapper. But overspending on sneakers? That’s a real rapper thing to do.

Every dollar I spend, I’m looking to fall in love. I have a few things I already love, but I’m always thinking that I can do better. I’m always on the hunt.

I make these songs for me. That’s the truth. I make them because that’s what I want to hear. Long before you ever hear it, believe that I’m in a Porsche with the top off listening to it.

I think it’s challenging trying to describe my sound. Not because I’m making some experimental martian music, but because it’s a little broader. The things that you’ve heard are only fragments and small fractions of what you’re going to hear.

If I say I’m rich enough times and enough people say it back to me, I gotta be rich, right?

There’s no real music scene in Guyana, but there’s a music space. So there’s no scene because there’s no economy for it, but there’s a space because everything that spills over dancehall and reggae, spills over.

I don’t know how to be comfortable. Comfort is uncomfortable to me so I push myself to new places.

I like musk and oud in a really, really delicate way. Because sometimes, if there’s too much oud, it just smells like you’re in the back of a cab in Harlem and I can’t do it.

I grew up in a church. My mom is a minister so she would make us go to every possible church she could muster.

People use the word success often, I don’t use that word.

So when I was a kid in Guyana, I would run barefoot in the street and bathe in the rain. That was a real thing. Picture that, showers falling from the sky in the middle of the Caribbean.

I can’t play guitar or piano. I can’t even play dumb to get through TSA in the airport.

My mom made me read a ton of books, so I got good at words and understood the English language. So when I started rapping, words were something I knew. I learned how to manipulate them so that I could say whatever I wanted to say.

I’m a Brooklyn kid. So for me, rap and all the other forms of music that I participate in, we catch a win? It’s a win for everybody.

I had a good start. I did a record with Beyonce. I did a record with Lenny Kravitz. I put out my second collection of music and then my second collection of clothes.

The only thing I know is the only things that I know. You can’t ask me to talk about something I have no information on. I stay silent. It’d be foolish. So when I talk about something, it’s something I at least have a little bit of familiarity with me.

I’m a marketing guy at my core. If I wasn’t doing music, I would still be introducing ideas on how I like branding and marketing.

There’s no better feeling than when I go outside and I see the faces of people who paid their money just to see me, that tells me the music is going where it’s supposed to and that’s encouraging.

I make music in terms of collections.