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" Because I'm not in a record deal, I don't have to operate in an album format. "

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" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life. "

" I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important. "

" I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that. "

" I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider. "

" I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened. "

" Of course awards matter. "

" I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder. "

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

" The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool. "

" The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing? "

" I hope not to define myself by suffering. "

" You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time. "

" 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. "

" I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer's block. "

" 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 was a thug. "

" 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 like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. "

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" This has always been my life and no one else's, and that's how it's always been since the day I came in it. "

" I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another. "

" 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. "

" The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me. "