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" I grew up watching 'American Idol.' "
Syd
Watching
Grew
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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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Happen
Dope
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" I don't even start singing anything until the mic is on and recording, because my first ideas are usually my best ones. So I'll just press record; I'll freestyle a whole three minutes. "
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Singing
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Best
" I grew up in a house that was constantly under construction. It's been under construction my whole life. My mom loves interior decor, and my dad loves construction - he loves demolition and building new walls. "
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Construction
" My parents have always been supportive of whatever I've wanted to do. "
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Whatever
Parents
Supportive
" My dad makes me breakfast every morning; he's very worried about my nutrition. "
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Morning
He
Nutrition
" I'm sure that, on some level of the major-label and old-establishment industry, there are execs and agents who think homosexuality is a liability. "
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Level
Think
Industry
" I learned everything I knew about recording and engineering from my experience with Odd Future, so I was pretty comfortable with not having much. "
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" Kaytranada's a really cool dude. "
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" I know that Shia LaBeouf and Fiona Apple went to my alma mater, Hamilton High. "
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High
Apple
Hamilton
" It's no secret that I love women. I think everyone loves women. And I like having beautiful women around me. "
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Beautiful
Think
Me
" 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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Made
Just
Music
" If you ranked Odd Future, I was at the very bottom. "
Syd
Very
Ranked
Odd
" 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. "
Syd
Together
Mistakes
Great
" 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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Me
Like
Find
" 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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Friends
Most
Gay
" I think I'm influenced a lot by Drake in specific ways in my writing. "
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I Think
Lot
Think
" 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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Honest
Music
Me
" I'm never a flashy type of person. "
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Type
Person
Never
" I want to say I hate my generation, but I don't. "
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Generation
Hate
Want
" I get kinda nervous before every show. "
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Every
Get
Kinda
" 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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Wish
Dope
I Wish
" I never think I work hard enough, as much things I have on my plate. "
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Enough
Think
Work Hard
" I want to be a great performer. "
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Great
Performer
Want
" I like that I'm an engineer - it sets me apart from a lot of other artists. "
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Artists
Engineer
Like
" 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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Band
Back
You
" 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
" 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
" If you want to be a pioneer, you have to be intentional, at least a little bit. "
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You
Want
Pioneer
" My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. "
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Conscience
Money
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