“When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords...” — G-Eazy Quote

When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

I wanted to make an album that plays from the top to bottom and feels together and complete. That's just something that felt important.

I was making all my own beats, and I really liked sampling stuff, like old '50s and '60s pop and soul and doo-wop records. I was chopping those up and putting loops and drums on them and just rapping over them.

I've been in love with music since I was old enough to establish my taste.

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing.

I try and imagine myself in situations and figure out how I'd have reacted and responded to them, and then bring that insight into my acting. Much of acting is about borrowing from your real-life experiences.

I was the guy that was always borrowing a fiver, who always needed petrol money.

I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken.