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" Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play. "

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" I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro. "

" I had writer's block for almost a year. "

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

" The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us. "

" I don't intend to stop making music. "

" I'm not a centerfold. "

" As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy. "

" I believe that I'm one of the best in the world at what I do, and that's all I've ever wanted to be. "

" I can operate in half-a-song format. "

" 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. "

" When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should write.' "

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

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

" We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure. "

" 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. "

" I might just write a novel next. I don't know! "

" I'm big on what's in good taste. "

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

" The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance. "

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

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

" I don't have any secrets I need kept any more. "

" 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 feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio. "

" It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn't reaping the lion's share of the profits, and that was problematic for me. "

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

" 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. "

" I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that. "

" It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records. "