Doja Cat Quotes

I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.

I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist and hear a song and think, 'I bet I could sing that song. I'll put that in my show.'

I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.

I think I'm influenced a lot by Drake in specific ways in my writing.

I was really inspired, working with Odd Future.

To me, sometimes things outside of rap inspire me to rap.

I came across this guy named DJ Grumble and I just really liked his beats because they were different. I felt like they spoke to me.

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time.

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.

He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!

I'm definitely inspired by Michael Jackson. I watch all his videos all the time. And Busta Rhymes, early Busta Rhymes - I really was inspired by him. He's really the reason why I started rapping. Because all his visuals. I loved his videos when I was younger.

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

'Gorgeous' was one of those records that, as soon as I heard the beat, I was like, 'Man, this is the one. This is that 'This Can't Be Life' Kanye beat.'

But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

John Mayer would be my ultimate collaboration because he's just the man. He has basically captured all I believe in with music.