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" I don't watch TV. "
Syd
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" My mom wasn't expecting me to end up how I ended up. When she wanted to have kids, she wanted to have two girls, and then she got my brother and me. Which is a disappointment to anybody. You can't help it. "
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" I lived in a pretty big house, and we had a guesthouse, so when I was 14, I built a studio in my bedroom, which was pretty big. It was two rooms connected, so I turned the second into a studio and ran the mic in my closet. "
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" My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. "
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" For Odd Future, I only made beats for Mike G. With the Internet, I'm part of a production team making tracks for me to sing over. "
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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'm influenced a lot by Drake in specific ways in my writing. "
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" I think that's what I learned a lot from Odd Future. I learned a lot of great things from them, but one of the mistakes that they made was that we didn't stay together, and we didn't communicate. We never had meetings. Everybody had issues with everybody else and wouldn't talk about it. "
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" If you want to be a pioneer, you have to be intentional, at least a little bit. "
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" Older people generally appreciate live music. "
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" I like that I'm an engineer - it sets me apart from a lot of other artists. "
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" If everything happens for a reason, what's the reason? "
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" Justin Timberlake has a great live show. "
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" I was a loner; I spent the first half of high school alone. "
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" Performing live was something that I had to really work at. "
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" 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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" 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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" At the end of the day, I represent myself first and foremost, and I'm not going to ever purposely try and misrepresent myself. "
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" I feel like I'm real honest in my music. Even if it ends up being an exaggeration or a fantasy, it's a fantasy that's real to me. "
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" I want to say I hate my generation, but I don't. "
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" I'm just a really shy person. I don't gravitate towards attention, so for someone like me to have as much attention as I have is bizarre. "
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" I'm never a flashy type of person. "
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" I sing every day, on a regular basis. "
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" I'm kind of shy when it comes to women, so I don't really approach them. I'll just admire them from afar, and if they happen to say something to me, then maybe I'll find the courage to say something. "
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" At some point, I started listening to music a little differently. Rather than being like, 'Yo, this is dope - who made this?' it started being like, 'I wish I made this.' "
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" I want people to love me for my music. "
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" I hate the word 'lesbian.' "
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" Most of my friends are straight dudes. I talk to them about girls. I don't talk to girls about girls; I don't talk to gay girls about girls. "
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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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