Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

Coming out of the Northwest and that environment to shoot hip-hop videos, it's a little atypical of a place to be, you know.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

I'm the only person in my entire extended family that plays an instrument or sings, really. Which is kind of weird. I don't know where I got it from.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

I bring up 'The Heist,' and you can almost cut that record down the middle between songs where the beat came first and the words came second, and songs where the words came first and the beat came second. It can start with a vibe, a beat that drives a story, or it can start with a story and then trying to identify the tone to tell that story right.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

I have never been wired to be front and centre of spotlight and ready to dance.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

I'm not trying to make beats that are better than somebody else's. I'm trying to make beats that are genuine to me.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

When you are 10, and you are with friends making music or playing sports or doing whatever, I would say, enjoy that and try to keep that as the model for as long as you can.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

The process is so much longer than the result for almost everything all of us are doing.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

How do I use my platform? How do you join in a way that is useful and not distracting and not shining a light on you?

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

There is something about me that is collaborative, that wants to get the best performance out of somebody else or to hear something that somebody else has done that's good and to try and make it great.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

Any time we have the opportunity to play in a more intimate room, there's such a huge aspect of our set just built for that. And beyond that, we just love being that close to our fans.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

The music industry is transforming fairly rapidly.

Ryan Lewis
Ryan Lewis

I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop since I was six.