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" All of my music is honest. "
The Weeknd
Honest
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" I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous. "
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" When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark. "
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" I'm mainstream. "
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" My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure. "
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" I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced. "
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" Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning. "
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" I'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else. "
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" Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed. "
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" Literally wrote 'Starboy' in 30 minutes. "
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" I knew the second I finished the first record - 'House Of Balloons' - and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best. "
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" 'Thursday' is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation. "
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Situation
" I love trying new things. "
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" It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can't or won't see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish. "
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" I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it's such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it's therapeutic. "
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Art
Step
" I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of. "
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Drop
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" When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music. "
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Kind
Me
" Taylor Swift's audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all. "
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Me
Listen
" Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was. "
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" Marriage is scary to me, man. "
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" You aren't normal if you sing to people. You aren't a normal person. It's nerve-racking. "
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People
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" From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat. "
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Why
Never
" My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway. "
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Prince
Inspiration
Michael Jackson
" Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music. "
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Environment
" I don't think I'd ever apologise for music I make, no. "
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" I've had sleep paralysis. "
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" For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you're doing something good. "
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" I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world - from religion to race. "
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" I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd. "
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" I'm all about evolution. I'm the first person to judge myself. "
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