Tyler The Creator's Quotes

If you're a sports star and you say 'faggot' on the courts, you get fined. But if you're in music and you say it 234 times, you get an MTV music award.

I live in my own head and it all makes sense to me.

Do what the fuck makes you happy. Because in the end, who's there? You.

For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion...-Tyler, The Creator

I think I'm cool. That's all that matters.

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

Sometimes you gotta close a door to open a window

But sometimes, very occasionally, songs and books and films and pictures express who you are perfectly. And they don’t do this in words or images, necessarily; the connection is a lot less direct and more complicated than that. When I was first beginning to write seriously, I read Anne Tyler’s Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, and suddenly knew what I was, and what I wanted to be, for better or worse. It’s a process something like falling in love. You don’t necessarily choose the best person, or the wisest, or the most beautiful; there’s something else going on. There was a part of me that would rather have fallen for Updike or Kerouac, or DeLillo – for someone masculine, or at least, maybe somebody a little more opaque, and certainly someone who uses more swearwords- and, though I have admired those writers, at various stages in my life, admiration is a very different thing from the kind of transference I’m talking about. I’m talking about understanding – or at least feeling like I understand- every artistic decision, every impulse, the soul of both the work and its creator. “This is me,” I wanted to say when I read Tyler’s rich, sad, lovely novel. “I’m not a character, I’m nothing like the author, I haven’t had the experiences she writes about. But even so, this is what I feel like, inside. This is what I would sound like, if I ever I were to find a voice.” And I did find a voice, eventually, and it was mine, not hers; but nevertheless, so powerful was the process of identification that I still don’t feel as though I’ve expressed myself as well, as completely, as Tyler did on my behalf.

Cause when I hear your name I can not stop cheesing I love you so much that my heart stops beating when you're leaving And I'm grieving and my heart starts bleeding Life without you has no goddamn meaning

As individuals, we may not be able to do much, but when we're silent when someone uses the word "gay" as an insult, we are falling short. When we don't vote to support equal marriage rights for all, we are falling short. When we support musicians like Tyler, the Creator, we are falling short. We are failing our communities. We are failing civil rights. There are injustices great and small, and even if we can only fight the small ones, at least we are fighting.

I'm not a follower. I'm a leader. And anyone who speaks their mind is always criticised.

Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.

I saw a photo, you looked joyous. My eyes are green, I eat my veggies. I need to get her out the picture. She's really fuckin' up my frame.

There were no captions. Once the subjects’ identities must have seemed so obvious; it hadn’t occurred to the album’s creator that the time would come when no one alive remembered them.

Perhaps we expect gay public figures and other prominent queer people to come out, to stand and be counted, so they can do the work we’re unwilling to do to change the world, to carry the burdens we are unwilling to shoulder, to take the stands we are unwilling to make. As individuals, we may not be able to do much, but when we’re silent when someone uses the word “gay” as an insult, we are falling short. When we don’t vote to support equal marriage rights for all, we are falling short. When we support musicians like Tyler, the Creator, we are falling short. We are failing our communities. We are failing civil rights. There are injustices great and small, and even if we can only fight the small ones, at least we are fighting.

Same for the photos on the facing page: two little girls crammed into an armchair with a puppy, and a baby whose vast bouffant christening gown seemed to be wearing him rather than the other way around. There were no captions. Once the subjects’ identities must have seemed so obvious; it hadn’t occurred to the album’s creator that the time would come when no one alive remembered them.

Understanding the difference between your truth and the words of others will be the most important safeguard you have against becoming a mouthpiece for someone else’s cause.  So, accept the fact that you have learned almost everything about the nature of creation from someone that learned it from someone else that claimed to have learned it from the Creator itself.

Sick to my motherf****** tummy!

at Mt Sinai, the people who had been in slavery were now free, free to keep the perfect law of liberty, free to be in Covenant with the Creator of the universe.  Compared to the way the rest of the world lived, subject to the tyranny of men, and false gods and their unjust laws, it is easy to see why the Torah is called the perfect law of liberty.  Torah was given for a purpose, and that purpose was for our good and not evil.

So are we acting like the children of a set apart Creator, or are we acting as though we are the children of a father who left his teenagers home while he went away on a long journey, doing as we see fit in the full eyes of the world who are watching to see if we really are set-apart, or just all talk.  They want to see if we hold ourselves to God’s standards of what is and is not set apart, clean and unclean, good and bad.  They want to see if we are really the Children of the Most High.

I saw your photo, you looked joyous. My eyes are green, I eat my veggies. I need to get her out the picture. She's really fuckin' with my friend.

You see On this here stage tonight is something legendary He goes by the name of The Creator But you, you call him Tyler Baudelaire

...you better be careful, baby, and look both ways before you cross my mind...Bootsy Collins, from the song, "Isolation" by Kali Uchi, Tyler the Creator, featuring Bootsy

I'm a f**kin' walkin' paradox, no, I'm not

the early chapters of my book included bus passes now its tire traction off like fuck crashes, ask him how? insurance higher than the lease bill, run flats when the feet peel fish tail the boy eats meals, tummy ache from my cheap thrills granny hug the way the seat feel, on the left turn, leave the neck burn from the frost bit links, size of an earth worm, wasted on last check earned im, expecting this so it aint odd, two 5's on the paint job, lactose, wide body, fat grannys watch over me when i act slow, rev till i plateau keys sported on the hip, jeff gordon is his mind, life's forza on the strip switch gears like i take breaths, wish i had 8 left 6 got skipped, went to 7th from the 5th more advance than your average, i like coupes, two shit when my friends pull up, stops tur ato a pageant but until i get that engo, its es chapter uno but i know what that bus pass turned into its magic