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" At some point, I started listening to music a little differently. Rather than being like, 'Yo, this is dope - who made this?' it started being like, 'I wish I made this.' "

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" Everybody in Odd Future is their own artist - they have their own friends and their own ideas for things - so we all spent quite a lot of time separated. "

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" I lived in a pretty big house, and we had a guesthouse, so when I was 14, I built a studio in my bedroom, which was pretty big. It was two rooms connected, so I turned the second into a studio and ran the mic in my closet. "

" If you think I'm a young boy singing these songs, dope. Run with that. "

" I've always been comfortable with my gayness, but I was intimidated by the social anxiety. "

" I was really inspired, working with Odd Future. "

" Studying James Fauntleroy, I learned it's okay to write a bad song. Just write another one the next day and hope that it's better. "

" My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. "

" I don't even start singing anything until the mic is on and recording, because my first ideas are usually my best ones. So I'll just press record; I'll freestyle a whole three minutes. "

" I have really dope parents, and they happen to both really love, love music - they're huge music fans. "

" I think the selfie age is kind of making fame annoying. "

" I'm kind of shy when it comes to women, so I don't really approach them. I'll just admire them from afar, and if they happen to say something to me, then maybe I'll find the courage to say something. "

" I used to feel like I wasn't a good songwriter when I couldn't finish a song by myself. "

" I was a loner; I spent the first half of high school alone. "

" I think too many people are offended by stuff that doesn't matter. "

" I think I see myself differently than most people see me. "

" I learned everything I knew about recording and engineering from my experience with Odd Future, so I was pretty comfortable with not having much. "

" I've gotten used to not having all the responsibility on my shoulders. "

" I think that's what I learned a lot from Odd Future. I learned a lot of great things from them, but one of the mistakes that they made was that we didn't stay together, and we didn't communicate. We never had meetings. Everybody had issues with everybody else and wouldn't talk about it. "

" I hate the word 'lesbian.' "

" I get kinda nervous before every show. "

" I've always been conscious not to take advantage of my sexual orientation because I don't think it's fair, and it shouldn't matter. "

" I sing, but I'm not a singer. I'm just a producer who sings on her own songs because I can't find anybody else who sounds like me. "

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" I grew up in a house that was constantly under construction. It's been under construction my whole life. My mom loves interior decor, and my dad loves construction - he loves demolition and building new walls. "

" I was 16 when I recorded 'Flashlight.' I produced it, made the beat, wrote it, recorded it. "

" I grew up watching 'American Idol.' "

" My parents have always been supportive of whatever I've wanted to do. "

" I do want to inspire people - young girls who may like to wear boys' clothes and who romanticize women and feel nothing wrong with it. "

" I sing every day, on a regular basis. "

" It's weird: I don't really know where I pull my inspiration from. I think it's N.E.R.D. "

" Some people just need something to be mad about. "