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" Always focus on the music first. That's the big thing. Staying true to making good music and not sacrificing that for anything. "

" Being in the high-school band was some of the funnest years of my life. "

" Computers are really patient. They can sit there all day. It's a totally different situation dealing with humans. They can be tired or overly excited. "

" Everyone wants to grow, but I'm not trying to reinvent myself anytime soon. "

" Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self. "

" For 'The Anthem,' a lot of my fans were like 'Oh, man, he's getting lazy making just, like, a pop format tune that everyone's doing these days.' But on this album, I wanted to write songs with vocals that would get stuck in my head, not just movements of instrumentals. "

" I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music. "

" I don't need more money. I don't need that to be happy. "

" I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself. "

" If you make music with business in your head, it'll show. I make it from the heart. There's a difference. "

" I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot. "

" I have a top 10 list of my favorite movies of all time, and just for the sake of not having my top 5 be entirely Miyazaki films, I had to pick one. So, right now, my favorite Miyazaki film is probably 'Princess Mononoke.' "

" I haven't written my favorite song yet, and I hope I never do. "

" I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines. "

" I like mixing things up. That makes it more interesting. I love mixing in slower funk with what I do. I'll add drum and bass and put my foot to the gas pedal and press it to the floor. "

" I loved playing the saxophone. "

" I love hip-hop, and I like the beats the most. "

" I love looking out at a sea of people. It's mind-blowing. But I also like playing clubs. "

" I love playing live and creating these records that people are so into. "

" I love what I do, and I do it 24/7, and it hurts my relationships very often, but it's worth it. "

" I'm obsessed with the sound of today, but I was raised on the Motown sound. "

" I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It had its limits. I play piano now and again in the new forms of music that I actually want to play, but at the time, it was something that I just kind of moved past. "

" In this day and age, I really just don't want to sell people on something. I don't want to have to sell you sound. I don't like selling emotions. Or ideas. I just want to give you these ideas and inspire people. "

" I think it would be super, hella cool to hop into a cab & hear my song on the radio - like, 'Yeah!' - and also be like, 'Who is this Griz guy? He's horrible.' That'd be really cool. "

" I think we're finally in a culture now where being gay is normalized. "

" It is totally cool to be gay. "

" It's all about the music. Everything else is just extra. "

" I wanna take a step forward, and I also wanna make sure that step forward is the step that I want and that I'm not being pressured by life. You try and get better at doing something, and a lot of the time, it's because somebody told you that you needed to be better. "

" I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul records. They just, like, take a clip of that and rap over it because, you know, that was just kind of what was up. "

" I was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope. "

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