Top 35 Rich Brian Quotes

I don’t want to be just seen as a character, because that can get exhausting after a while.

My brother was the first to be home-schooled, and one reason they home-schooled me was so he wouldn’t get jealous. Another thing is my mom noticed that I would stress out a lot about school. I would ask my teacher how good my grades were and think about that all the time.

When I say ‘homeschooled,’ I was homeschooled for, like, two years, and then we just stopped. It was me and my parents, and they’d give me homework and stuff like that, but then one day, they just stopped.

I went through a clubbing phase – then, I dunno, dude. The club scene in Jakarta sucks. It’s rich kids and kids who are trying to look rich.

I didn’t want to be one of those people that does something that blows up and keeps doing it for way too long.

I have very little thoughts on Lil Xan. I think his music is very unique.

I like lyrical rappers and turn up rappers.

I feel like kids naturally love guns, so I was drawn to that.

I learned how to make videos, I learned how to make music, I learned English from the Internet. It’s such a great platform, too, to release your stuff.

I’ve always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.

I started playing the drums at five years old and used to listen to a lot of screamo bands like Asking Alexandria, Dream Theater, and Attack Attack!

I would also love to get into acting. I love being in front of the camera.

It’s important for kids to see someone who looks like them carving his own path. I definitely acknowledge that, and I think it’s super great.

I started making raps in 2014, recording stuff from my iPhone and putting them together in Sony Vegas, which is a video editing program.

It’s pretty hard as an Asian rapper to not be put in a box. I do my best to avoid that.

My sister sings, and my brother plays the keyboard.

I’m listening to Tame Impala, Mac DeMarco, Frank Ocean, Childish Gambino. I’m just trying to just get as many different inspirations as I can. I love artists that can adapt and have different styles.

I have this friend who does comedy but also music, and I really enjoyed his stuff, and I wanted to do that.

Some fan literally broke into my house. He literally came in and said, ‘I’m a huge fan. I brought you food.’ He brought me three boxes of noodles.

I’m really about seeing people and art for what they are. Like, seeing people as humans and seeing art.

I very rarely shop. The only money I spend is on, like, Uber and food.

It doesn’t really bother me if people misunderstand me. It’s cool, but you can’t do anything about it.

I’m definitely trying to make longer songs, but if it’s short and good, I’m not going to do anything about it.

At one point, I had more friends on the Internet than I did in real life.

I just say ‘Amen’ a lot. It’s just about being grateful and never taking things for granted.

Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together… like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band was called Roasted Peanuts.

I remember in Indonesia, there was this actor in a film that got pretty big internationally, and he went to Hollywood. Seeing an Indonesian guy doing that when I was 13 or 14, it really motivated me.

For songs to be big, I don’t think there’s a certain formula to it.

I’ve known about hip-hop for a long time. The first time it intrigued me was when I saw this music video by Tyga on television. I was intrigued by the whole aesthetic. It was very unique.

When you listen deeply to a song, you find all the little sounds they use and subconsciously learn how to produce and mix.

I feel like, with an album, that’s how you get to know an artist.

I started home-schooling when I was in elementary school because my parents were really busy back then. They didn’t have time to drive me there, and we didn’t have a school bus or whatever.

I want to write from my own experience.

I don’t want to be boxed in or looked at a certain way, as in, ‘Yo, he’s an Asian rapper.’

My dad is constantly looking up my name on Twitter, every single day. He made a Twitter account just for that.