Ryan Lewis Quotes

I didn't grow up listening to hip-hop since I was six.

I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate.

For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome.

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

The music industry is transforming fairly rapidly.

I'm not trying to make beats that are better than somebody else's. I'm trying to make beats that are genuine to me.

I guess my job has always been to build the music, direct the videos, to do all the things that usually fall behind the scenes.

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.

I'm the only person in my entire extended family that plays an instrument or sings, really. Which is kind of weird. I don't know where I got it from.

The process is so much longer than the result for almost everything all of us are doing.

I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm.

Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.

Coming out of the Northwest and that environment to shoot hip-hop videos, it's a little atypical of a place to be, you know.

How do I use my platform? How do you join in a way that is useful and not distracting and not shining a light on you?

I have never been wired to be front and centre of spotlight and ready to dance.