When I made 'Lil Boat,' my first mixtape, I didn't have a drop date, a due date. I didn't have critics rating on it; I was just making it. And then when I finished it, I dropped it at my own smoothness, at my own pace.

Lil Yachty

Categorized in : Just Own My Own Boat

Just do what you want to do, and who cares what people think. That's always been my thing.

think you want people

I am happy every day, because life is moving in a very positive way.

i-am day positive life

I don't think men dress to look attractive; I think they dress to look cool.

dress look cool men

You look more like a legend when you accomplish a lot at a young age.

legend look you age

I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't do nothing, bro.

bro nothing smoke drink

I'm 100 percent sunshine.

percent sunshine

I've always been a good person, but I wanna be, like, the best person.

person best good good-person

I don't feed into negativity. I thankfully don't. That's just me.

feed just me negativity

I hate being alone. That's why I like being with my friends: we've got energy; we're social as hell.

alone friends hell hate

Any post I do on social media, any song, anything in general - I just try to promote positivity, because I felt like there's not enough positivity going around in the world.

social-media media song world

I'm just fire.

just fire

There's no way I'm not gonna have a gun, 'cause you just never know what'll go down in Atlanta. But I'd rather be able to protect myself and have the right, and not have to think about the consequences if I'm just trying to protect myself.

myself think you gun

I'm not normally big on suits.

normally big suits

My only goal is to impress my fans.

only impress fans goal

I'm promoting positivity. I'm promoting happiness and loving yourself and having fun. But it's not a joke.

yourself having-fun fun happiness

My mother always taught me a lot of important life lessons, and she would always tell me how important it was to tip. We didn't have much money, so we would tip what we could. Now, it's at the point I'm financially stable. When I'm out eating, I hope I have the cash, but if I write it on the receipt, I'll leave a big tip.

me hope mother life

I was always curious about, like, how does hot sauce work? Growing up I used to wonder, 'If I touched it, was it hot?'

growing-up wonder hot work

My mom and dad got divorced when I was, like, 8, and when I went to my dad's house on the weekend, he'd play a lot of music: Miles Davis, Radiohead, Thom Yorke, Elton John.

mom-and-dad dad music mom

I love Beyonce and Jay Z.

jay i-love beyonce love

Serious rap music puts me to sleep.

me music serious sleep