I think the most important part of the teenage years is wondering.
It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.
I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.
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.
I am everything Donald Trump is against.
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 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.
A lot of my music is about self-discovery because I focus on my teenage years.
In order to make a change, I have to exist in a traditionally homophobic space such as hip-hop. If I were to just be this queer rapper who only spoke to queer kids... I don't think I could as effectively make a change for another young, black, queer kid growing up in Texas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As soon as I left Georgia, my narrative became about taking risks and the fight for creative bedroom artists with no platform.
I'm super inspired by Master P and early moguls. They were doing everything. I wanna do that, too. Twenty-six albums in one year. It's possible. Very possible.
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 want to speak for people who can't speak; they're afraid to speak.
I wanted to blend in 'cause I knew I was different.
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.
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.
