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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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 started writing songs when I was eight.
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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 groom, but it doesn't take me a long time to get to what people see.
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I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.
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My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle.
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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 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'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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I never got nervous performing my own material.
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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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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 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 have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.
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I love tattoos.
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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.
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Since I was younger I've been making the best out of nothing.
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Brand names aren't important to me at all.
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I've done a lot of work to get where I'm at, but I have to keep working.
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I sleep on my stomach with my head under a bunch of pillows so if someone wants to come in and try to kill me they can't tell if I'm there or not, so they'll just leave.