“'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if yo...” — Macklemore Quote

'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.

I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.

It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.

The American way is to not need help, but to help.

Regulators owned and controlled by industry are not the American way.

My guess is that people with a stereotypically conservative exclusionary stance about immigration rarely have the sense that they feel disgusted that people elsewhere in the world would want to come to the United States for better lives. Instead, there is threat by the rabble, the unwashed masses, to the American way of life.

Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.