‘I’m not a gangster, bro.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘I’m not a gay rights activist.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘Nowadays, everybody wanna be weird. We know how to manifest being weird.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘You’ve got to exfoliate, you know?’ – ASAP Rocky

‘Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn’t ask to be a role model, because I’m not perfect.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘I’m not glorifying it at all, I’m just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it’s not that deep.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘I don’t cook, ’cause I don’t know how to cook.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘I like women. I love women.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can’t prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘I really want to do the unexpected, and I think that’s what I did when I executed ‘Long.Live.A$AP.’ I wanted people to really see the message and that I’m an artist who not only has the capability of rapping, but of composing great music both for people of my generation and for people with different backgrounds.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘I strive for perfection, but I’m not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I’m wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I’m obsessed with being different.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don’t drive, I wouldn’t mind riding a bike… People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I’m an artist, man. I’m going to live like an artist.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘I don’t like new cars; I’m into vintage cars – there’s a Jaguar E-Type in the ‘Goldie’ video.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘The thing with me is if I feel disrespected I won’t hesitate to fight. But it takes a lot to make me feel disrespected.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘I don’t care what straight people do, I don’t care what gay people do. I don’t care what nobody do. That’s they business. I just care about what I do. You know what I’m saying?’ – ASAP Rocky

‘New York gave me hell for that ‘Purple Swag,’ man. They didn’t respect me until ‘Peso.” – ASAP Rocky

‘I’m not saying that hip-hop needs gay rappers or anything, but they need to stop being so close-minded because that will just cause the genre to fail. Look at pop. Pop doesn’t discriminate against people. Look at Lady Gaga, y’know what I mean?’ – ASAP Rocky

‘I have a Rolex, but no diamonds. Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense. I don’t even have pierced ears – I’m not into that; it’s too much.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘I’m here to break boundaries, man. That’s all. I’m here to be the first so that the people after me don’t have to think twice about expressing themselves and being free.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn’t the way to do things. I don’t discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color… that’s immature.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘I’m starting to find out that a lot of people that you wouldn’t think listen to me really do.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘Purple lipstick? Naw, that looks stupid on all girls!’ – ASAP Rocky

‘With clothes, I like mixing what different designers do until it becomes a personal expression of how I’m feeling that day.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘On ‘Phoenix,’ I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It’s called ‘Phoenix’ because it’s talking about dying – but when a phoenix dies, it’s reborn from its own ashes. I related to that.’ – ASAP Rocky

‘So for me, fashion was about standing out as an individual – and it helped me get the attention that most people try to get with publicity stunts or by doing other crazy things. But I just let the attention come to me naturally, and I think some of that has to do with my fashion.’ – ASAP Rocky