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" 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. "

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" I realized I could do music for the sake of music, not the other things that come with it. That was a major shift. "

" What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around. "

" I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room. "

" I looked at myself and realized I had a lot of boundaries up about what I would talk about, what was private for me and what wasn't. I decided to just get rid of them. It was quite liberating. "

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" I'm a big fan of country music. "

" When you know it's a game, you can have more fun playing it. When things seem serious, you tend to take less risk and have less fun. "

" I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars. "

" 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. "

" I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day. "

" 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. "

" I'm kind of like a rapper trapped in a singer's body. "

" I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could. "

" I wanted to break into producing, so I would peddle my tracks and beats to labels. I always heard the same thing: They liked the music, but it didn't fit any of the artists on their roster. "

" 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. "

" I was a paperboy first, then I worked at a movie theater. But I was a caddie at a golf club, which I didn't like. The people were so bougie and racist at times. "

" I've always had an eclectic taste in music. But what I try to do is combine these things in ways that others would never think of, like putting Bun B on an Elton John song. "

" I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. "

" When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that. "

" I have my dream job. I get paid to make music. "

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" I feel super, super grateful that I get to make music. "

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" There was a time when being loaded and loved and popular really mattered a lot to me. I'd say that when I was less popular, I learned to be happy without those things. "

" 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. "