Kevin Gates quotes:

Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted A vision without action is merely a dream Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence

Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?

Seem like codeine is the one thing that help take my mind from the lies

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.

Loves a battlefield it's not a one night stand.

I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the passenger seat, I got my driver, my getaway driver. My Bonnie, I'm Clyde. That's when everything is just settled. In the daytime it's chaotic. Everybody just goin' nowhere fast. In a rush to go nowhere.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

I love to be clean. I wear the same things, all of my clothes pretty much look the same. I'm a plain and simple type of guy. I don't really do a lotta busy colors and things of that nature. I feel like less is more.

I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

I've always stood on my own two. I don't need a team. I don't do the entourage thing, 30 people. I don't do that. That's just not me.

Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse." No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music.

Emotionally I'm an introvert but it come off as aggression

Everytime the leaves are changing it's the loneliest time of the year

Fall in love fast, make sure I handle it delicate

I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem. Anybody that has extreme highs and extreme lows is bipolar to any psychologist and that's not necessarily the truth.

Everybody round you pretendin that they your partner, let you have a problem they won't even help you out

I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy.

I don't have a religion. I ain't nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and...As far as me being, I live by those principles.

I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state.

Our testament to what can happen The moment you follow your heart Keeping the faith even when it get dark.

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

Can you keep up with the lingo

Don't respect a lot of rappers, feel I had a harder life

I can't say any artist inspired me, because I'm inspired by the things that go on around me.

I did a lot of drugs. I didn't do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice.

I don't gang bang but I'll bang tha thang!

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

I know my voice is very distinctive because in a room of 100 people, my voice is always picked out.

I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.

I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it's therapeutic to me. It's a release. It's how I vent emotionally.

I vent through my music. That's the only outlet I have.

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me. I'm a sponge. I'm very analytical. I notice the things that most people don't notice.

It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave

I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.

Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide.

Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.

Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major.

Out my window.. I see everything I dream about and wished I had

Pray to god someone prays for me

Say what you doin and not what you finna do

Some may consider this a problem, I easily fall in love

The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything's settled, you can see more.

The Notebook ... thatâ??s my favorite one. Iâ??ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love.

The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know

To be honest I am not lookin to be romantic, already got someone at home

Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn't affect me and they're respectful with it, I don't care what they do. Because I'm not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental?

When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble

Why accept failure when success is free?

Wise men change, fools stay the same.

You have to be intimate with a person to know that person.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

I got 6 jobs I don't get TIRED!