Donald Glover

James Murphy, James Brown, Prince, The Neptunes.

Drugs can be bad. But some people can do them and be fine. If you don't know what kind of person you are, I'd really stay away from them. I'll never do coke cause I know I'll love it and probably die. Something that makes you stay up and love everything? Cmon son... I really even shouldn't be drinking...but...here we are. I live in Cali. Marijuana is like toothpaste there.

Chris Rock, Louis CK, Patton Oswalt, Eddie Murphy.

Half your age +7. That's the formula I use.

Tina Fey had probably the biggest influence on me other than my parents. She's just not afraid. I loved watching her work cause she was so brave. I was really scared when I got to 30 Rock, she was like "I don't give a fuck. Be you. If it's funny, it's in the script." and And watching 30 Rock, there's so much Tina there that it made me see how I should start being me more too. Started putting out more music and started not being as afraid to be me. Tina is a true gangsta. She don't give a FUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKK. I put her against any chick in the game. EDIT: "Against ANYONE in the game." She'd destory anything. If she started rapping, I'd quit. I don't want that.

Like working with your grandpa. You have to yell a lot, lot of stories about the good old days, but you love him in the end.

Logic

I guess the most detail I can go into with recounting my life would be, I'm having fun. I believe art is using shock and awe to give you a slice or microcosm of what life is. My albums are what life seems like to me:fair, unfair, whatever. I don't want to be a "rap star". I want people to be me for however long the album is when they listen to it. There are a lot of questions on the EP and Culdesac that you should be asking yourself/I ask myself. But....yeah.

The more you can do the better. Always write your own stuff. Most people aren't interested in writing for you. Beeleedat.

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger’s syndrome. I like the way they think — it suits me. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon is great. That and [Jonathan Safran Foer’s] Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close — they’re on a separate bookshelf. They don’t understand what the other books are saying by their facial expressions, but they’re perfectly lined-up.