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" As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book. "

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" The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance. "

" Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity? "

" I hope not to define myself by suffering. "

" I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer. "

" Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous. "

" It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records. "

" Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play. "

" As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy. "

" It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure. "

" You can't think; you just gotta do things. "

" Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time. "

" I need to know how many records I've sold, how many album equivalents from streaming, which territories are playing my music more than others, because it helps me in conversations about where we're gonna be playing shows or where I might open a retail location, like a pop-up store or something. "

" It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice. "

" The work is the work. The work is not me. "

" I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.' "

" It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies. "

" I'm not a centerfold. "

" My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out. "

" I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie. "

" I'm big on what's in good taste. "

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" All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists. "

" I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work. "

" People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear. "

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" I'm about being the best. "