“Nobody wants to sit there and study lyrics the whole time, driving bac...” — O. T. Genasis Quote

“Nobody wants to sit there and study lyrics the whole time, driving back from work when they just got their check after a long shift. It's not the same. Everybody just wants to be happy with life.”

“Music changes, life changes. It's like Jay Z said: 'If people like the old Jay, then go listen to the old Jay.' I always heard that, but never understood it.”

“Genesis means the beginning. But I put the A instead of the E because I didn't wanna be criticized in church and nothing like that. And it means the beginning, but in my city, I'm the only person that's on the West Coast that has a different sound, so I was thinking to myself, 'This the beginning of a new sound, a new person.'”

“Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.”

“My life is actually empty, so I feel like I'm lying to everyone by pretending to be happy on the outside.”

“I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.”