35 Quotes by Saint Jhn

There's no real music scene in Guyana, but there's a music space. So there's no scene because there's no economy for it, but there's a space because everything that spills over dancehall and reggae, spills over.

I think it's challenging trying to describe my sound. Not because I'm making some experimental martian music, but because it's a little broader. The things that you've heard are only fragments and small fractions of what you're going to hear.

My father wasn't present, so my older brother felt like a father. He was only two years older than me so that was all I had.

I like musk and oud in a really, really delicate way. Because sometimes, if there's too much oud, it just smells like you're in the back of a cab in Harlem and I can't do it.

I don't want to give you the opportunity to find a box to put me in, figure it out later. When the records come out song by song, you'll hear it and get to determine how you want to classify me.

My mom made me read a ton of books, so I got good at words and understood the English language. So when I started rapping, words were something I knew. I learned how to manipulate them so that I could say whatever I wanted to say.

I think it takes an unbelievable amount of hours for anybody to master their craft.

My journey is where I'm at right? It's the monopoly board of my life, and I'm making my rounds.

If I say I'm rich enough times and enough people say it back to me, I gotta be rich, right?