Top 45 Machine Gun Kelly Quotes

Cleveland, Ohio, is the real deal.

New life situations equal out to new kinds of songs.

You can’t tell my fans that there’s a better rapper than Machine Gun Kelly… Hands down, there’s no way I’m not in the top five.

When I came into the industry, and as I continue to be in it, part of my authenticity is the fact that I speak my mind.

I think couldn’t not make a song called ‘Wild Boy’ and not be a wild boy.

I’m not that great of a speaker. I don’t like watching my own interviews. I think I suck at talking, but one thing I can do is move my pen, and if that’s how I gotta speak to my daughter, then let me do that.

I knew so many people were coming up to me because they knew who I was, not because they were fans of my music. That bothered me because I don’t want to be a celebrity; I want to be an artist.

Everyone in our clique rocks a black bandana with the print ‘EST 19XX’ on them 24/7. As the underdog, you are expected to lose or give up and ‘wave the white towel,’ so that is why our flag is black. We never give up – never surrender. EST means ‘Everyone Stands Together.’ The ’19XX’ is to represent any age.

‘Cleveland’ went viral, but it didn’t necessarily pop. I didn’t have that support. I didn’t have a deal when I made ‘Cleveland’ or anything like that.

I think the artist community is very tight-knit.

I don’t want to feel like the cool kid in the crowd who doesn’t want to do what the artist’s saying. I want to be so in awe of the artist that I’m literally jumping up and down, even if I’ve got on brand new Louboutins.

Doing ‘Roadies’ was a big release for me. I play this character named Wes who’s the most pure, innocent form of who I was when I was eighteen searching for something.

I think that me as a person, and as a personality, even my name alone, ‘Machine Gun Kelly’ – it is very loud, and it says a lot.

As I was coming up, there was so much naysaying, there was so much doubt, whether it was from my peers or people in the industry.

I actually have an Avenged Sevenfold tattoo on my body.

I’m a kid from Ohio in an industry that drives people insane.

My memory stops at 14.

It’s crazy. Even doing that one episode of ‘Catfish,’ I get people recognizing me for it who didn’t even know my music.

It’s an honor to step onstage and celebrate the service and sacrifices of our soldiers.

With anything that happens in Cleveland, I always get involved.

When I was running away, I didn’t have somebody there to help me run away. All I had was DMX’s voice or Eminem’s voice or Tupac’s voice.

I don’t think having a conservative mind in 2012 is a cool thing.

I’m very personal with my music, and it takes a piece of your heart away every time you record that in the studio. So you only have so many pieces of your heart to give away.

Being a rock star rocks.

I’m an anarchist. I have it tattooed on my stomach.

It’s awesome to have a brand like Reebok support what you stand for as well as your creative vision, and I’m excited to show you what a Reebok and Machine Gun Kelly collaboration is all about.

As soon as ‘General Admission’ came out, there was a whole new pain that hit me that was rougher than I could imagine.

Hip-hop influences my talent, but I think that punk and everything else I listened to growing up was who my idols were.

Economics runs the world.

I’m not one of those acts where it’s, like, this mainstream person, where the average white kid at Harvard University is like, ‘It’s educational tonight. Let’s all go out there and spend Dad’s money.’

When you look a certain way, or you have a certain presence, people take someone else’s word over yours.

They always say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere, but I say that about Cleveland.

I don’t want my daughter to grow up and feel like she has to try that hard to get people to accept her.

Imogen Poots loves music to death and can literally name 300 bands that she listens to, that you’ve never heard. She’s so heavy into the underground music scene. When she’s speaking on music, she means it.

I was picked on a lot as a kid because of the way I dressed. Metal and punk music got me through that. I know a lot of people don’t understand it, but I love metal.

I respect all grandpas around the world doin’ it big.

I think, with music, I’m a lyricist who talks about real life things.

I love surrealism.

Not everyone wants to be in misery in every song!

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.

I’m trying to be the Dr. Dre of Cleveland.

Everything I stood for, forever, since the beginning of time, has been about seeing people as humans. Not as man, woman, white, Hispanic, any of that stuff.

I sell out shows. My performance is top-tier.

Every time I perform, I always try to have that ‘wow’ factor.

As far as I’m concerned, I don’t really care anymore what people think about me. I’m just gonna be me.