Drake Quotes

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would stop and say, ‘Oh, that’s the hook right there,’ I’ll move that to the first four bars of the verse and do a new hook.

Never say that you regret something, because at one point in your life, you wanted it.

Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.

When you’re on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn’t there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

When I’m writing, I’m thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don’t translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

I’m cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.

Smile and let everyone know that today, you’re a lot stronger than you were yesterday.

Life ain’t no rehearsal, the cameras always rolling.

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

Crazy how you gotta wait until it’s dark out to see who really with you.

Don’t play hard to get, play hard to forget.