I've done a lot of work to get where I'm at, but I have to keep working.
The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular.
Whatever I do, I do it because I want to do it and because it's completely, 100% me.
I'm always hustling.
Every day is new. It's just a new day. I look at six hours at a time.
I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.
My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.
I don't consider myself an A-list celebrity or a big dog, but every time I meet somebody, even rappers who've been in the game for years... they're like, 'Man, I'm trying to get on your level.'
I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.
I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.
The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz.
I groom, but it doesn't take me a long time to get to what people see.
My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.
'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name.
My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle.
I want to be an icon.
I don't take time off.
I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.
Brand names aren't important to me at all.
You don't have to be a certain thing to be cool. If you're white, you don't have to act black or whatever. Just be you and know who you are.
