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" I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.' "

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

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

" You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time. "

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

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" Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio. "

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

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" It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" Of course awards matter. "

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" Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times. "

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" The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing? "

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" 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. "

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" I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular. "

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" My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth. "

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

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" When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that. "

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

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" When you write a song like 'Forrest Gump,' the subject can't be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort. "

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

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

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" As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that. "

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" It's cool to be recognised by your peers. "

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" People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear. "

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" I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. "

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" The work is the work. The work is not me. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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