"I consider myself to be an entertainer, given that I'm most known as MGK "the rapper" I don't have a problem with the label, I just want the people to know that I am much more than that."

“One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small." This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase.”

“When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things.”

Source : ""Something that's not yourself." — An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

“Fashion should be stylish and fun.”

“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.”

“Occupation is the armor of the soul.”

Source : George Stillman HILLARD (1854). “The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc”, p.22

“I have very warm memories about New York, about the old times, mostly the '60s.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I think we should all be more concerned about the environment and the effects of global warming. It will be pointless to talk about all the issues that divide us when it's 300 degrees outside.”

Source : Interview with Jennifer Cox, www.askmen.com.

“The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers.”