127 Quotes by Drake

It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident.

When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show - that's not really where it's at any more. It's becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

When I think of myself, I think of Toronto. My music would never sound the way it does if it weren't for Toronto.

When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.

Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.

I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap.