Kevin Abstract Quotes

Find people whose morals and vision align with yours, and follow that.

For some reason, being gay can be such a sad thing in media, so it’s really cool to see someone like me who doesn’t look like, I guess, the stereotypical gay guy.

I’ve never seen a boy band that had members who look like us – kids of color from all over the world – and met on the Internet.

I wanted to blend in ’cause I knew I was different.

Here’s the thing: we don’t write music for a universal statement; we just share our experiences. And that’s all it is. It’s always raw and very authentic.

I feel like I would have been able to be the creative I am anywhere in America just because I have access to the Internet.

I just wanted to have my own dynasty. I wanted my own Cash Money or Roc-A-Fella. Outside of that, I also wanted my own media company.

I don’t want to be that artist who’s doing the teenage angst thing and draw it out my whole career.

It’s hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.

I just want people to be able to put on ‘American Boyfriend’ and accept to not know. To not know anything about everything.

I just want to be Kevin Abstract and exist and help as many people as possible who are struggling with whatever they’re struggling with.

People will tell you for years whatever you have to say isn’t important at all. So when you have someone who breaks the mold and speaks up – and you see and identify with that – they become your hero.

We just want to uplift people, inspire people, and get people through their day.

There are no rules when I’m making stuff. That’s why I’m glad I’m not signed. No one’s telling me I got to drop this type of single or this video.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

I never thought I could sing. I still don’t.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to start a record label.

I’m always around creative people, and I’m trying to work on something constantly at all times.

I think we’re always scared, but we have each other to lean on, so we’re not being extremely vulnerable in front of the world by ourselves. We have each other.

When you’re bored, you get creative.

The biggest pop star in the world shouldn’t be a boring white kid from Canada – the biggest pop star in the world should be a creative black kid from Texas that doesn’t know how to come out to his family – that’s a way more interesting story, and it gives a new type of kid some hope.

I think it’s awesome when you meet someone that can kind of just get you 110 percent, and no matter how long that lasts, you kind of just take it for what it is and embrace it.

Having to deal with, like, family problems in front of the world is very difficult.

I won’t have a standout moment until I perform at the VMAs, meet Ryan Gosling, and hug Sky Ferreira.

I always wanted to make something that was bigger than me, that wasn’t just one person.

I want to speak for people who can’t speak; they’re afraid to speak.

I want to give black kids a new superhero.

I am everything Donald Trump is against.

As soon as I left Georgia, my narrative became about taking risks and the fight for creative bedroom artists with no platform.

I wrote ‘Echo’ a few months after moving out of my sister’s apartment in Atlanta. I was 17 and just finished high school. I didn’t go to prom and didn’t walk the stage. I just dipped.

I want kids to live through this character I’ve created. I want them to say that they are Kevin Abstract because they relate to it that much.

No one in my family was creative. One of my sisters went to a university, and pretty much, most of my siblings live a basic and dull lifestyle.

I’m never going to search for anyone’s acceptance. I’m just going to be me, and people are eventually going to have to accept it.