Musician

I'm very into film and strengthening what it means to be a rapper and to be a black dude from Chicago.

I don't consider being a musician the same thing as being a celebrity.

When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place that do that. Chief Keef did it; Kids These Days did it; Cool Kids did it. And I'm the next Cool-Kids-Chief, if you will.

I don't agree with the way labels are set up. I don't agree that anyone should sign 360 deals or sign away their publishing or take most of the infrastructure that's included in a formal deal.

There's a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something and giving them information and getting feedback. There are so many questions that I'm trying to ask, and I'm still so far from being done saying what I gotta say.

My daughter, when she was still in utero, she had, they call it atrial flutters. It's kind of like an irregular heartbeat. But when you're in utero, it's real hard to detect and also to treat.

When you make stuff from the 'you' point of view, you really can't go wrong.

I didn't know love until I had my daughter. I didn't know its bounds.

Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.

I used to always rock a cap when I was in high school and get them taken away. It was an excessive amount. Like, so often that, at the end of each school year, there would be a box of all the confiscated caps. After they gave back a few caps to other kids, they would just give me the box because the rest were all my hats.

My parents always wanted me to go to college.

I'm just trying to be an example for all the young artists that are becoming artists every day and working on their craft and trying to help them avoid the pitfalls of the upper management in music and the non-music side of music.

I can't see myself ever having somebody say something about me on a song and me being like, 'All right, now I'm about to say something about them on a song.'

Colorism and racism don't stop when you're a musician or when you have wealth or when you're in any given position.

I'm lucky to be in a space where I've been accepted for who I am and celebrated for who I am.

'Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.

I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.

When I was going out and trying to fully give glory to God, in my setting, I feared that people would be dismissive of it, like, 'This is Christian rap. I'm not trying to hear it.' But it's the total opposite: People were very accepting of it.

Taylor Swift is just dope. She is an ill songwriter.

I've always been able to defend Kanye.