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" I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing. "

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" I try to listen to as much different music as possible - I've always got music blasting in my ears! "

" If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny. "

" I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough. "

" My favorite television show is 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.' "

" I really look up to Louis C.K. I think he's great. And obviously he's very popular, more popular than me. Years ago, I was thinking, naively, it would be great to be that popular. And then I thought about it and then I realized that, with his money and his level of notoriety, he has all of the same emotions that I do. "

" I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day. "

" I love the fact that I don't have a real job! "

" I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning. "

" If they want to party and do all the things I say brought me sadness in my song, with my song as the soundtrack... so be it. "

" I have my dream job. I get paid to make music. "

" When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want. "

" I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it. "

" I want to headline Bonnaroo. I just want to do it more than anything in the world. "

" My earliest musical memory is of my older sister playing me Nirvana's 'Nevermind' on headphones in the back of the car on a road trip. "

" When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that. "

" It's always hard for an artist from the U.K. to break into the United States. It's especially harder for a rapper because hip-hop is such an American art form. "

" My focus is to try to appreciate the present moment more and more and more. "

" What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around. "

" I've only had success when I'm not trying to. It's that weird thing where if you're trying to impress a girl, you're not going to impress her. But if you aren't trying to impress a girl, you'll probably impress her because you're not trying. "

" I take a lot of pride in my songs. "

" All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when I'm saying something on a song, I mean it. It comes from a real place and captures the realness in my life. "

" When I was a kid, my parents were always like, 'Money doesn't buy happiness.' I thought, 'You just didn't make enough money.' I had to go find it out for myself. "

" Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an interview, I'm scared to say who they are. "

" I think it should be socially acceptable for men to like 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt. "

" I think I was blessed with this talent for a reason. No one told me how to write a song, but I'm just good at it, you know. There are a lot of other things in my life that I'm not so good at, but writing a song is not one of them. "

" I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it. "

" A lot of people have trouble putting into words what my music is, and it's because of where I grew up. "

" I realized I could do music for the sake of music, not the other things that come with it. That was a major shift. "