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" Everyone wants to grow, but I'm not trying to reinvent myself anytime soon. "
GRiZ
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" Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self. "
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" The environment of San Francisco has so much history to it that I really appreciate. Musically, socially, and culturally. There's this new culture of people; it's a crazy place to be. "
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" We just love Denver. The love and support from people here is amazing. "
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" I don't need more money. I don't need that to be happy. "
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" I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot. "
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" Being in the high-school band was some of the funnest years of my life. "
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" I love playing live and creating these records that people are so into. "
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" I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines. "
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" I think we're finally in a culture now where being gay is normalized. "
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" I like mixing things up. That makes it more interesting. I love mixing in slower funk with what I do. I'll add drum and bass and put my foot to the gas pedal and press it to the floor. "
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" I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music. "
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" I have a top 10 list of my favorite movies of all time, and just for the sake of not having my top 5 be entirely Miyazaki films, I had to pick one. So, right now, my favorite Miyazaki film is probably 'Princess Mononoke.' "
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" It is totally cool to be gay. "
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" My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now. "
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" My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that's important. "
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" Stay in school and band, kids! It had its nerdy moments, and I always felt like I wanted to do something more with it. "
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" When you first start photographing a show or being into photography, you might think it's cool to see people with their phones, like, 'It's so novel; everyone cares about this moment so much,' but then it becomes... trite, y'know, and shallow. I think the best moments of my life have been spent without phones. "
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