62 Quotes by Pusha T

When I start a song, it’s the first thought. It’s the first thought and the first cadence, because that’s the most natural.

I feel like people can feel when something is natural. I think they can tell.

As a writer, you have a huge ego. You think that every line means something to everybody the same way it means to you. And that’s not true.

I talk specifically to the lifestyle and those who can relate to it. And I feel like, where the creativity comes in, is where you draw the parallels that everybody can relate to. That’s where it’s creative for me. I feel like it works best that way.

No one wants to hear me over some smooth, regular beat, or just into the times. I try to do records sometimes that have a different bounce – maybe it’s a Southern bounce or something. And people shoot me all day long.

I don’t ever want anyone to hear my music and look at it as just gratuitous violence, or hustling and money-getting – I try to tell the perspective of the woman, the man, the mind, why.

I can’t say that music ever made me do anything.

I didn’t come in as a writer that found producers, I came in under producers. So I’ve always respected the actual production process and producers in general.

A good villain exudes charisma and power. He has principles, though; that just gives him a level of dimension. It makes him seem to be a bit unpredictable, because he's usually deemed as some type of evil, ruthless person, and then he shows you his principles, and you don't know what to think of it.