Top 88 Quotes & Sayings by Tierra Whack

It's funny, for so long I hated my last name.

I'm naturally all over the place and scatter-brained.

I realized that music was the only thing I really thought about - music and writing.

It's important for everyone to just be able to express themselves in whatever way.

Like for 'Black Nails,' I just had black nails - and I never have black nails. It was my first and last time getting black nails. And that's so not normal for me. So when you're recording, you're up at the mic and you gotta name the file, so I just look down and I'm like, 'Black Nails!' That's literally what it was.

I can't describe my sound. That's something I don't ever think about and I kinda don't want to think about it.

I like to create whatever that pops up in my head, bring whatever idea to life.

For a long time, I couldn't tell somebody how I felt or I couldn't talk about my problems because I felt like I was complaining. Writing would help me or it would be like, I can't tell you how I feel, but I can play you a song.

Playing characters is fun because you get the chance to put yourself in someone else's shoes.

Once I have a wig on, I become a different person. You can't get Tierra back until the wig comes off.

I was always pretty popular, just cool with everybody.

That's why I'm so crazy because my mom is crazy.

I think people think I'm a extrovert but really I'm a introvert.

I'll never be on the level of my idols.

I grew up around a bunch of rappers and street dudes and they were always like: 'yo! She's a little different but she's her.' They respected it because you know it wasn't forced, I wasn't posing to be something I wasn't.

Really, I only listen to like five songs.

So many people compromise everything; you don't have to do that. You see one opportunity and you're scared to turn it down. You don't have to take everything that comes your way and there's always something else on the other side.

Well, I have to have some type of visual in my head to finish a song. I can't finish a song if I can't see anything.

If I'm at home, I'm just watching a bunch of horror movies.

I have a sick sense of humor. Like, I'm always laughing at my own pain.

The phone started ringing when I dropped 'Whack World.'

I'm still so down to earth and regular. I still be in the projects, I still be in the hood - just regular.

I didn't want to just be a rapper, I wanted to be a star.

I love when people overexaggerate. It's so funny to me.

I remember reading Dr. Seuss books, and he's rhyming so many words together and I just loved the way it sounded. It became a challenge for me, to put words together that nobody would ever think about putting together.

A hard copy? It's fire. People want vinyl and cassette tapes - it's just cool to be able to touch it and feel it.

Philly gives me that raw edge. We just do us.

I create, put it out, repeat. Like, me and my friends, we play Uno and Connect Four a lot. I'm having fun, and I don't care about how many times I won or lost - I just want to keep playing the game.

I don't really reach out, it has to be organic. If we're in a studio setting and we're feeling the vibe, that's cool, we can make something. Like, I've been in a bunch of sessions with people I haven't made music with. Like, I just chill. I'm not forcing it. I don't DM people like, 'Yooo, I'm trying to get on a track.'

I always felt more comfortable doing what I wanted to do. Because at the end of the day, I'll be happy.

Like when I hear a beat, it might make you feel a way, but then it might make me feel a completely different way.

Everybody's opening up their own lane and it just makes you feel O.K. to showcase what you've got.

Crazy is good, crazy is fun!

Yo, it's helped me so much. I've connected with so many people that I've never imagined that I would ever know personally. I'm team Internet, for sure.

I'm so excited to just be able to be comfortable in my own skin and give what I have to the world and not feel like I have to copy to stand out or fit in.

If I'm not at the studio, I'm at home.

I don't want any gimmicks. The fact that people think that Whack is a gimmick is so crazy.

I jumped around to different schools so I always had to adapt - remain me but pull from different avenues.

I was my mom's oldest child, so she was like, watching closely and taking notes, like, 'Okay, this is what she gravitates towards,' and she gave me all the tools to keep me focused. I liked to write; she got me notebooks. I wanted to draw; she got me sketch books and crayons and coloured pencils.

I want people to appreciate all the time and effort that I put into my art and my music.

There was a time in school where I was trying to figure out which lunch table I belonged to. Eventually, I started my own table and formed my own crew.

I'm having fun creating what I'm creating.

To be honest, I'm selfish as an artist. I'm doing what I want to do and what I want to hear.

You can't put me in a box, because then it's just like, you're not gonna get anything.

I like to peel oranges.

I have so much built up inside. To be able to put what I have in my head into real life is just an amazing thing.

I chose art, music, of course fashion, clothes, colors. I'm just expressing what I have inside and bringing it out.

I'm most proud of making my mom happy. Really. Because she gave me life, and she supported me. So I want to be able to give back to her.

I never wanted to grow up. It really is a trap.

Sometimes, I can be crying my eyes out, wanting to die, and then I'll walk by a mirror and see myself and just bust out laughing.

I spent a lot of time in my head, but not like caring about what everybody else thought, just literally in my own world.

I put a lot of fun facts in the 'Mumbo Jumbo' video.

People compare me to the people I listen to, the people I'm influenced by, Andre 3000, Missy, Busta.

Everybody's inspiring me to just be me.

If I can make it through homelessness, I can make it through anything.

My moods are like a roller coaster. It's hard for me to just feel one way all the time.

That's what art is about: to create dialogue. Everybody deserves to have their own opinion.

Green Eggs and Ham' is fire.

I was born in the summer, but I hate it because I'm allergic to bug bites. I would go play with my cousins, and then we'd go inside and I'd have mosquito bites everywhere. But mine are different - like, they blow up with puss. It's really bad.

As a kid, I was really shy. Technically I am still, but when I'm performing I want everybody to listen.