Top 45 Rich Brian Quotes

I made a Twitter account when I was 10 years old. I wasn’t even trying to be funny. I was still tweeting in Indonesian. I didn’t really speak English yet.

I would also love to get into acting. I love being in front of the camera.

I’m listening to Tame Impala, Mac DeMarco, Frank Ocean, Childish Gambino. I’m just trying to just get as many different inspirations as I can. I love artists that can adapt and have different styles.

I like lyrical rappers and turn up rappers.

I wouldn’t really call myself a spokesman for anything. All I wanna do is inspire young people everywhere – not just Indonesia.

In my opinion, an album has a story from start to finish and has a concrete concept.

Learning how to rap actually improved my English, because it forced me to talk fast, and I used to suck at that.

Hip hop helped me learn about a whole bunch of American culture.

I started playing the drums at five years old and used to listen to a lot of screamo bands like Asking Alexandria, Dream Theater, and Attack Attack!

I was, like, 12 or 13; the first hip hop song I tried to rapping to was Macklemore’s ‘Thrift Shop,’ and my English was so bad, but learning to rap to different songs really helped me with my pronunciation, and looking at the lyrics on Rap Genius and stuff like that.

One day, I was just thinking about something, and then – you know when you think, and you have that inner voice in your head? I realized it was in English.

I want to write from my own experience.

Academic studies in general is not something that I’m very good at.

Honestly, I’m not a big activism or politic guy. I wouldn’t say I’m super educated in that stuff, and I feel like I shouldn’t speak on things that I don’t understand too much.

‘Dat $tick‘ was the first song I tried to be serious on. Then I thought, Wow, what if I really did this seriously? How dope would that be?’

I don’t want to be just seen as a character, because that can get exhausting after a while.

When I say ‘homeschooled,’ I was homeschooled for, like, two years, and then we just stopped. It was me and my parents, and they’d give me homework and stuff like that, but then one day, they just stopped.

I have this friend who does comedy but also music, and I really enjoyed his stuff, and I wanted to do that.

I went through a clubbing phase – then, I dunno, dude. The club scene in Jakarta sucks. It’s rich kids and kids who are trying to look rich.

I have very little thoughts on Lil Xan. I think his music is very unique.

I started listening to rap music in 2012 or something, because that was when I started becoming friends with American people, and they showed me rappers to listen to. I actually started listening to Macklemore a lot. He’s the first rapper I started listening to.

My dad put me onto Phil Collins and Dream Theater and all that stuff.

When I found out my parents wanted to homeschool me, I was so bummed out. I missed all my friends. But now I realise that if I wasn’t homeschooled, I’d be the lamest kid ever – I wouldn’t have been able to speak English, for a start.

I’m really about seeing people and art for what they are. Like, seeing people as humans and seeing art.

I actually, honestly don’t look into politics that much.

I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.

I started home-schooling when I was in elementary school because my parents were really busy back then. They didn’t have time to drive me there, and we didn’t have a school bus or whatever.

It’s pretty hard as an Asian rapper to not be put in a box. I do my best to avoid that.

Every time I get the chance, I just talk to myself basically in English just to practice my pronunciation.

I very rarely shop. The only money I spend is on, like, Uber and food.

Some fan literally broke into my house. He literally came in and said, ‘I’m a huge fan. I brought you food.’ He brought me three boxes of noodles.

I feel like kids naturally love guns, so I was drawn to that.

My brother was the first to be home-schooled, and one reason they home-schooled me was so he wouldn’t get jealous. Another thing is my mom noticed that I would stress out a lot about school. I would ask my teacher how good my grades were and think about that all the time.

My dad is constantly looking up my name on Twitter, every single day. He made a Twitter account just for that.

It’s important for kids to see someone who looks like them carving his own path. I definitely acknowledge that, and I think it’s super great.

All I have to do is to do my thing. I don’t have to talk about it like, ‘Oh, I’m representing for Asians.’ I’m just… doing it.

When my family got Internet installed at my house, me and my siblings went crazy and would take turns browsing. I’m homeschooled, too, so I would be on the computer every day. It was so exciting to finally get Internet at my house.

I’m really not a materialistic person.

Indonesian people don’t get satire; that’s the thing. There’s no thought in our humor.

For songs to be big, I don’t think there’s a certain formula to it.

My sister sings, and my brother plays the keyboard.

It doesn’t really bother me if people misunderstand me. It’s cool, but you can’t do anything about it.

I remember in Indonesia, there was this actor in a film that got pretty big internationally, and he went to Hollywood. Seeing an Indonesian guy doing that when I was 13 or 14, it really motivated me.

When you listen deeply to a song, you find all the little sounds they use and subconsciously learn how to produce and mix.

I always liked to draw, and when I was a kid, the Internet wasn’t big at all, so I would go to Internet cafes and search Google images for cartoon characters and save it to my USB drive.