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" Guitar Center hooks me up on a lot of stuff. "
Syd
Guitar
Center
Me
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" I remember my first albums: Brandy's first album and Usher's 'My Way.' "
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" Don't overthink it, and don't let technicalities stop you from creating. "
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" I think the selfie age is kind of making fame annoying. "
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" 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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" If you ranked Odd Future, I was at the very bottom. "
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" Performing live was something that I had to really work at. "
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" I don't watch TV. "
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" The gay community hated me for being part of Odd Future. They thought Odd Future was homophobic because they tend to use homophobic slang, and they were like: 'How can you work for and support homophobes?' But they aren't homophobic; they just don't really care whether you're offended or not. "
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" I knew that if I just came out as a singer, people would just be criticizing my voice. "
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" I think I see a lot of artists struggling to make their first album perfect, and I've been there. "
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" I feel like once you go with a band, it's hard to go back. I just don't see myself performing without a band. "
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Back
You
" As a child, I wanted to be a singer, but that was only because I thought I could sing. I'd sing along to Brandy and Usher and *NSYNC. "
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" I have really dope parents, and they happen to both really love, love music - they're huge music fans. "
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" I want to be a great performer. "
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Want
" I have an uncle in Jamaica who's an OG producer/songwriter over there, Mikey Bennett. "
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Bennett
Uncle
" Justin Timberlake has a great live show. "
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Show
" I think my first client other than my brother was this kid named Tallent. I was charging him eight dollars an hour to record in my room. He kept coming back, then I went up to ten dollars an hour. "
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Brother
Back
Think
" My dad makes me breakfast every morning; he's very worried about my nutrition. "
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Morning
He
Nutrition
" I've always been comfortable with my gayness, but I was intimidated by the social anxiety. "
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Comfortable
Social
Anxiety
" When I was 14 and I wanted to buy stuff, I didn't like asking for stuff from my parents, so I started a couple companies, and the last one ended up being my studio. "
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Asking
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Parents
" Once we got signed, I moved out of my house because I was having teenage issues with my mom. It really wasn't my fault, looking back. You know, I'm gay; it's weird. It was one of the things. She has no problem with me being gay, but she had a problem with me dressing the way I do at first. "
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Problem
Mom
Me
" 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. "
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Think
Always
Matter
" I've written songs about women since I've been involved with women, but I do know a few gay female artists who, back in the day, would write songs about men. "
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Gay
Men
Day
" I have stopped going out places just to avoid uncomfortable conversations. "
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Going
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Places
" For me, I'm just trying to keep it fun, keep it interesting, not get stuck on the same sound, the same wave for too long. "
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" 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. "
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" I think too many people are offended by stuff that doesn't matter. "
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" When I started making music, I just wanted to be the producer who sang the hooks. I wanted to be Pharrell, honestly, the one who made the beats and was in the music video with the girls. "
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" I was a loner; I spent the first half of high school alone. "
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