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" All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when I'm saying something on a song, I mean it. It comes from a real place and captures the realness in my life. "
People
Life
Saying
" A lot of my friends who I wrote or produced songs for came back and helped me make 'Pages.' It's better than I ever could have imagined. "
Better
Back
Friends
" A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it. "
Time
People
Artist
" A lot of people have trouble putting into words what my music is, and it's because of where I grew up. "
People
Words
Trouble
" Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time. "
Writing
Time
Music
" Detroit is in my music consciously and subconsciously. "
Subconsciously
Music
Detroit
" From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing. "
He
Writing
Will
" Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often. "
Go
Honestly
Very
" How can a song all about struggling with the afterglow of fame thrust someone into fame? How can a lyric like, 'I'm just a singer who already blew his shot,' give a singer another shot? I don't know... but it's funny. "
Funny
Know
Singer
" I always wanted everyone to love me, probably because I didn't love myself enough. But now I realize that when you're an artist, you're making the music that's in your head and in your heart, and not for any other reason. "
Me
Heart
Love
" I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label. "
Painting
Believe
I Believe
" I came to realize that if I was going to succeed in the music industry, I was going to have to learn how to perform my songs myself. "
Music
Succeed
Realize
" I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough. "
People
Enough
Me
" I consider myself a lyrics guy. "
Lyrics
Guy
Myself
" I co-produced 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth's album, so I've been keeping busy. "
Album
Keeping
Busy
" I didn't give myself enough love, so I was searching for it in other places, and it was a never ending struggle. "
Struggle
Enough
Love
" I didn't really experience any hardship like people tend to think of when they hear the words 'Detroit, Michigan.' I think Big Sean is a much better ambassador for the city. "
People
Words
Think
" I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing. "
Like
Singing
Sing
" I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old. "
High School
Audience
Career
" If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice. "
Stuff
Over
Same
" If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny. "
Really
Funny
Popular
" I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it. "
Ahead
Best
Feel
" I feel super, super grateful that I get to make music. "
Grateful
I Feel
Music
" If my career was a basketball season, I'm in the pre-season still. I'm not blowing everybody out by 40 - there's so much work to be done, and there's no time to really sit and look back and be proud of what I've done yet, because it's the pre-season still. "
Time
Proud
Look
" If they want to party and do all the things I say brought me sadness in my song, with my song as the soundtrack... so be it. "
Me
Sadness
Party
" I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes. "
Kid
Grew
Doing
" I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning. "
Beginning
Music
Racial
" I grew up making music in my mum's basement, and I used to tell her I was going down there to work, and she'd say, 'That's not work. Go get a real job!' It took me signing a record deal to change her opinion! "
Work
Opinion
Music
" I had an initial wave of popularity that, in time, crashed, and I slowly became less popular and less successful, and I had to figure out who I was without those things. "
Wave
Without
Time
" I hated the thought of being just a songwriter. "
Hated
Thought
Just
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