21 Quotes by Rotimi

I grew up in the church, and my mom is, like a major prayer warrior.

I got 'Power' on my own through my agent and my team. I didn't know 50 until I got on the show. Because my character is so close to his, we spent a lot of time as friends. But even in that, I didn't really bring up music to him because I saw how everybody else was bringing up music to him.

Being a growing entertainer, period, you're going to always have struggles. I'm still trying to learn how to even perform right onstage.

There's never been an entertainer that can take two warring parties and have both presidents stand on the stage and hold hands.

You're put on this platform where you see beauty every day, and you kinda get numb to it. So then it's like, 'What else do you have? You really can't hold a conversation? Next'.

'Empire' was already given its green light. I was like, 'Alright, this makes perfect sense. They wouldn't be going this hard on me if I didn't have it.' So it was last minute when I learned, you know, it's a business decision. That was my fault.

'Power' came in August. February 2014, 'Empire' ended. That whole time, I was like, 'You know what, let me just take a break from this and focus on music' so in that time period, I did my whole EP. Got the single 'Lotto.'

In this business, you can't get too attached to something.

The Apollo is where all the greats performed.