Wiz Khalifa Quotes
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I love my wife. We FaceTime and we talk on the phone and she travels to come see me when she can. But she works as well. But we see each other a lot more than people would think, though, because we make it happen and we love each other so much.
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I started writing songs when I was eight.
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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.
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I like a lot of old-school R&B, soul, and classic rock.
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I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.
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I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.
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'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name.
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I groom, but it doesn't take me a long time to get to what people see.
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My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle.
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I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.
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I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.
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I never got nervous performing my own material.
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I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.
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Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.
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I don't take time off.
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I love tattoos.
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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.'
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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.
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I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.
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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.