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" Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto. "

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" I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd. "

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" My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway. "

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" All I do is make music. "

" Let's be honest. Canada wasn't ever cool. "

" OVOXO will always be there. "

" When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events. "

" I'm all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it's called 'Kiss Land,' it's probably going to be the most terrifying thing you've ever seen in your life. "

" 'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song. "

" I think that's why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven't given people everything. "

" 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. "

" It's almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music. "

" Bragging just sounds good, man. "

" I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.' "

" I spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long it takes. I'm such a visual artist as well that it always goes hand-in-hand. "

" The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past; you just know what his plans are. "

" 'Thursday' is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation. "

" I get naturally uncomfortable when I'm put under a magnifying glass. "

" I'm mainstream. "

" In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures. "

" I love trying new things. "

" We're all insecure, aren't we? I'm not walking around like I'm macho man or anything. "

" I make good music for long journeys. "

" A chorus is not easy. "

" Literally wrote 'Starboy' in 30 minutes. "

" Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word - and actually wanting to see you. "

" 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. "