Paul Wall Quotes

‘Ninety percent grind, 10 percent sleep. That’s our motto.’ – Paul Wall

‘Whether it’s in the streets or its a nine-to-five, you can be hustling in many different aspects.’ – Paul Wall

‘With Houston, the H stands for ‘hustle.’ There’s a billboard that says, ‘Houston, hustle, heart, and home.’ That encompasses Houston.’ – Paul Wall

‘I think bad breath is… just hard to get past. Someone with just horrible breath, yeah. I’m not talking about just onion breath. I’m talking about you been brushing your teeth and using the mouthwash and it still smells like you’ve been tongue-kissing the toes of a gorilla – that’s horrible.’ – Paul Wall

‘Swishahouse, it started off as just a crew making mixtapes and that’s when I got down with it back in like 1998. It wasn’t a record label at first. It was all just for promotion, for fun, and we just had a crew representin’ for our hood.’ – Paul Wall

‘Houston isn’t about a you or an I or a me, it’s about a ‘we.” – Paul Wall

‘I try to keep an open mind – not knowing it all.’ – Paul Wall

‘I was morbidly obese, 120 pounds overweight. It was just embarrassing. I’d be on stage feeling like I was about to collapse. I’d get dizzy spells.’ – Paul Wall

‘I was hustling out of shops kind of doing, selling music out of my trunk, selling grills out of my trunk, too. And then I teamed up with Johnny Dang, he was the local, the grill man who made them for the dentist.’ – Paul Wall

‘You want to be able to trust somebody’s word.’ – Paul Wall

‘The surgery I got is called gastric sleeve.’ – Paul Wall

‘There’s a lot of culture vultures out there taking our culture down here in Texas.’ – Paul Wall

‘You can look in the mirror and try to hide it and cover it up, and it may work here or there, but there ain’t no shirt or hat you can put on or haircut you can get to hide the fact that you’re morbidly obese.’ – Paul Wall

‘Don’t be so quick to turn your back on people who are fighting things. You need to be there for them.’ – Paul Wall

‘Me and Ron C, I was cool with a lot of his family. We went to church together and one of his cousins, B Sight, that was my boy. We had a couple jobs together matter fact, we used to get down, he gave me the nickname Paul Wall. For some reason he just always called me that.’ – Paul Wall

‘I was Overflow. Another one I had was the Caped Crusader. Chamillionaire was Payroll. That was our group back then, Payroll and the Caped Crusader. We grew up on the same street so we lived a few houses down from each other. So we knew each other pretty much all our life.’ – Paul Wall

‘You can spend $200 or $50 for tennis shoes – it’s about what you can afford.’ – Paul Wall

‘I’d be on the airplane and have to ask for seatbelt extensions.’ – Paul Wall

‘I want to be here for my kids. I don’t want to have a heart attack.’ – Paul Wall

‘I just try to live my life as who I am.’ – Paul Wall

‘People always tell me I’m an anomaly or an outlier. I’m just me.’ – Paul Wall

‘To me, one of the greatest albums I ever put out was the album I did with Statik Selektah.’ – Paul Wall

‘Now that I got a son, it encourages me to work even harder.’ – Paul Wall

‘Helping teach my son right from wrong, what to do and how to be a man, just about life in general, same thing with my daughter, it’s just very important to me.’ – Paul Wall

‘When my mom grew up, her father was in the military so she grew up all over the world. She lived in Germany, Jerusalem, Switzerland, all over.’ – Paul Wall

‘I’ve always been adventurous – my wife calls me ‘the Hip Hop Crocodile Hunter’ – if you can survive in the hood, you can survive anywhere.’ – Paul Wall

‘Sometimes you’re with a producer who just makes beats and you can kinda do your thing to whatever beats they come up with. But sometimes you get with a producer who really produces you and the music together, not just the beat then you can kinda throw in your ideas and vibe off each other.’ – Paul Wall