Kaskade Quotes

I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

I live my life. And the best place to do that is Chicago.

I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.

For me, Barca was where I grew up since I was tiny, from eight years old.

Growing up, I really didn't have a lot of role models.

Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From about 7 or 8 on till about 15 or 16, that's all I listened to.

There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the first 10 years of my life there. My mom and dad were born and raised there, so a lot of that rubbed off on me. When I get angry, sometimes a Detroit accent comes out.

I didn't have a role model when I was younger.

I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.

The first 3 years of a person’s life determines the next 80 years.

My life began with Ronnie.

Most of my formative years were in Chandigarh.

Everyone has a story that they read when they were younger that influenced them.

Well, I grew up in a certain way, through the experiences that I had, so I don't know how I would have turned out had things been different.

Why am I who I am? It's the way I was raised.

I think that, any young child or teenager, you take a lot from your parents when you're growing up.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

Pub life was such a huge part of growing up for me, going to pubs and being around them. It made me who I am today.

I like the streets. I grew up in the streets.

I grew up in Illinois.

London's where I grew up and had most of my experiences.

I love L.A., but Pittsburgh just is home. This is what I know. This is where I was born and raised. This is what molded me to make me who I am.

My roots really instilled Chicago values in me.

I was born there and I grew up in East L.A., not Hollywood.