Rich Brian Quotes

I’m really not a materialistic person.

I actually, honestly don’t look into politics that much.

Every time I get the chance, I just talk to myself basically in English just to practice my pronunciation.

I say funny stuff in my lyrics to make people laugh, but it’s all in the seriousness of the music. I’m just being witty.

One thing about Indonesians is that a lot of them, even if they don’t understand English, have absolutely no problem memorizing English songs. Even my dad.

It doesn’t really bother me if people misunderstand me. It’s cool, but you can’t do anything about it.

Honestly, I’m not a big activism or politic guy. I wouldn’t say I’m super educated in that stuff, and I feel like I shouldn’t speak on things that I don’t understand too much.

There are good things about Indonesia, but there are bad things about it that I hope can be fixed.

I went through a clubbing phase – then, I dunno, dude. The club scene in Jakarta sucks. It’s rich kids and kids who are trying to look rich.

My brother was the first to be home-schooled, and one reason they home-schooled me was so he wouldn’t get jealous. Another thing is my mom noticed that I would stress out a lot about school. I would ask my teacher how good my grades were and think about that all the time.

Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together… like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band was called Roasted Peanuts.

I started home-schooling when I was in elementary school because my parents were really busy back then. They didn’t have time to drive me there, and we didn’t have a school bus or whatever.

I learned how to make videos, I learned how to make music, I learned English from the Internet. It’s such a great platform, too, to release your stuff.

I just love making people laugh.

Learning how to rap actually improved my English, because it forced me to talk fast, and I used to suck at that.

I started listening to rap music in 2012 or something, because that was when I started becoming friends with American people, and they showed me rappers to listen to. I actually started listening to Macklemore a lot. He’s the first rapper I started listening to.

My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.

Indonesian people don’t get satire; that’s the thing. There’s no thought in our humor.

I very rarely shop. The only money I spend is on, like, Uber and food.

When I say ‘homeschooled,’ I was homeschooled for, like, two years, and then we just stopped. It was me and my parents, and they’d give me homework and stuff like that, but then one day, they just stopped.

I was, like, 12 or 13; the first hip hop song I tried to rapping to was Macklemore’s ‘Thrift Shop,’ and my English was so bad, but learning to rap to different songs really helped me with my pronunciation, and looking at the lyrics on Rap Genius and stuff like that.

It got to the point where I would wake up at 6 A.M. and go on my phone and tweet something and have it be really good and get lots of retweets… and then I would wake up, because it was actually a dream; I would wake up with my hand holding nothing – an air phone.

Academic studies in general is not something that I’m very good at.

I remember in Indonesia, there was this actor in a film that got pretty big internationally, and he went to Hollywood. Seeing an Indonesian guy doing that when I was 13 or 14, it really motivated me.

I like lyrical rappers and turn up rappers.

I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.

My dad is constantly looking up my name on Twitter, every single day. He made a Twitter account just for that.

I like what Dumbfoundead and Awkwafina are doing, but I think I’m just trying to do something different.

I just say ‘Amen’ a lot. It’s just about being grateful and never taking things for granted.

It’s important for kids to see someone who looks like them carving his own path. I definitely acknowledge that, and I think it’s super great.

Things can go away just like that. You got to be always respectful and nice and positive.

I’ve always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.

I started making raps in 2014, recording stuff from my iPhone and putting them together in Sony Vegas, which is a video editing program.

It’s pretty hard as an Asian rapper to not be put in a box. I do my best to avoid that.

All I have to do is to do my thing. I don’t have to talk about it like, ‘Oh, I’m representing for Asians.’ I’m just… doing it.