“When I think about 'Beast Mode,' that's what I think about. I don't th...” — Zaytoven Quote

“When I think about 'Beast Mode,' that's what I think about. I don't think about just a hard project; they just created some art together.”

“When you take your music around to your people in the city or your label, and don't nobody like it, but you really like it, and you like, 'Dang, these folks don't hear what I hear.'”

“Now, I made the most money I ever made in my life with 'Papers' - I think my first check was like $101,000, my folks couldn't even believe. At this time, this is like 2010, I'm still in the barbershop cutting hair, still being the regular Zaytoven because I felt like after 'Papers,' it wasn't going to get any bigger than that.”

“Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?”

“Writing is the beast unto itself.”

“Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.”