Rich Brian Quotes

Rich Brian

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 3, 1999

One day, I was just thinking about something, and then - you know when you think, and you have that inner voice in your head? I realized it was in English.

Rich Brian

When my family got Internet installed at my house, me and my siblings went crazy and would take turns browsing. I'm homeschooled, too, so I would be on the computer every day. It was so exciting to finally get Internet at my house.

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I've always felt like I could express myself better in English just because the way the grammar works.

Rich Brian

Me and my family used to have a Christian covers band together... like rock Christian music, upbeat, all in Indonesian. The band was called Roasted Peanuts.

Rich Brian

My influences are a wide variety: from Dave Chappelle stand-up comedy specials on YouTube, to watching chick-flick comedy movies, to scrolling through stuff people say on the Internet.

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I have very little thoughts on Lil Xan. I think his music is very unique.

Rich Brian

In my neighborhood, there are stray goats everywhere, and, someone owns it. Someone has a farm full of goats. At daytime, they just let them loose, but then at nighttime, they just come back. So, it's like, in daytime, the whole neighborhood is just filled with goats walking around.

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Every time I get the chance, I just talk to myself basically in English just to practice my pronunciation.

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I didn't want to be one of those people that does something that blows up and keeps doing it for way too long.

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Some fan literally broke into my house. He literally came in and said, 'I'm a huge fan. I brought you food.' He brought me three boxes of noodles.

Rich Brian

I feel like, with an album, that's how you get to know an artist.

Rich Brian

I would also love to get into acting. I love being in front of the camera.

Rich Brian

At, like, 11, I think, that was just me watching a lot of YouTube videos, and I whenever I had the chance, I would talk to myself, practise pronunciation. Then I found out about hip hop and became friends with American people through Twitter. I was like, 'Yo, I need to be in a country where everybody speaks the same language.'

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I used to play the drums when I was, like, 5 through 10.

Rich Brian

My sister sings, and my brother plays the keyboard.

Rich Brian

I grew up in West Jakarta, in a middle-to-low-class neighbourhood.

Rich Brian

When I found out my parents wanted to homeschool me, I was so bummed out. I missed all my friends. But now I realise that if I wasn't homeschooled, I'd be the lamest kid ever - I wouldn't have been able to speak English, for a start.

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I wouldn't really call myself a spokesman for anything. All I wanna do is inspire young people everywhere - not just Indonesia.

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All I have to do is to do my thing. I don't have to talk about it like, 'Oh, I'm representing for Asians.' I'm just... doing it.

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I started listening to rap music in 2012 or something, because that was when I started becoming friends with American people, and they showed me rappers to listen to. I actually started listening to Macklemore a lot. He's the first rapper I started listening to.

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