Latest Drake Quotes from Interviews

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• I really put a lot of and emotion into my project in order to evoke emotion.

  Drake

  Order, Emotion, Evoke

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• What you'll always get from me is a variety of emotions. Whenever you listen to my CD, whether you're the hardest dude or the bitterest cat, I'll give you a real story to think about.

  Drake

  Real, Cat, Thinking

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard.

  Drake

  Desire, Gangsters, Hard

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• I feel like I'm truly and genuinely proud and unafraid. I'm not scared of who I am.

  Drake

  Who I Am, Proud, Scared

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• I think with the right person and the right music, people from all walks of life can come together. I know that's what my life was about. I've seen it all, so that's what I want to bring to the table.

  Drake

  Thinking, People, Together

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• Being bi-racial and being young along with being American and Canadian [allows me to] try and cover all the bases and expand my fan base to a level that has yet to be seen.

  Drake

  Trying, Fans, Levels

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• I don't really put a lot of swearing in my music. I want everybody to be able to enjoy it.

  Drake

  Want, Able, Enjoy

  HipHop Canada Interview, July 12, 2006.

• I want everybody to feel comfortable with vibing with Drake. I don't want to limit my music to people based on their race and/or age.

  Drake

  Race, People, Age

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• Everyone just wants to see what you can do for yourself. People think that just because I have some big ridiculous number on my myspace page that it's all easy for me. People are interested but I don't come home to labels waiting outside my house.

  Drake

  Home, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

• I still just like everybody else need to meet quotas with my spins, with my buzz and make my way into the office. It has to be undeniable; the world has to know about you before Jay-Z makes a call.

  Drake

  Office, Needs, Quota

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• I am right at the bottom compared to everybody else with press kits and demos and trying to get meetings. That's what I love about music and hate about it. That's why I respect people that are successful in the music business because you really have to build it from the ground up.

  Drake

  Hate, Successful, People

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• I have a fan base that some people say is equal to that of signed artists' maybe even more.

  Drake

  Artist, People, Fans

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

  Drake

  Successful, People, Black

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• I know clothing very well and I'm sure I will get into fashion eventually.

  Drake

  Fashion, Wells, Clothings

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• I personally don't enjoy films that bring black people down. I find that a majority of the films that black people are starred in nowadays, are ones focused on gang violence or dancing.

  Drake

  People, Dancing, Black

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• I don't know why everyone is making dance movies. I auditioned for three dance movies in the past two months and for one of them I just couldn't do it.

  Drake

  Past, Two, Three

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

  Drake

  Want, Film, Moments

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• When I was young I was working with a lot of people being out in the south. My uncle wrote for Al Green and I was around Al a lot.

  Drake

  Uncles, People, Green

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• I never plan to stop acting, I take it very seriously.

  Drake

  Acting, Plans

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• When I write I like to just say everything that people think about but never express vocally. I just get deep into it; I'm a bit obsessive about music.

  Drake

  Writing, Thinking, People

  HipHop Canada Interview, July 12, 2006.

• I can make a record like the [previous] one I put out, but I don't want to do that because I want to set the bar so high for myself. I don't want to do it like everyone else.

  Drake

  Bars, Records, Want

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• Once you make something that people enjoy then you are forced to promote it. Instead of just going right into the next project, you have to be where they need you to be and do what they need you to do.

  Drake

  People, Needs, Next

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level.

  Drake

  Writing, Levels, Want

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life.

  Drake

  Simple, Things In Life, Music And Life

  Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.

• I kind of forget what it's like to be a dude who grew up in the south sometimes. I want to refresh my memory and remember why I love it [there] so much.

  Drake

  Memories, Want, Kind

  HipHop Canada Interview, www.hiphopcanada.com. July 12, 2006.