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" I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines. "

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" It's all about the music. Everything else is just extra. "

" I love playing live and creating these records that people are so into. "

" I love what I do, and I do it 24/7, and it hurts my relationships very often, but it's worth it. "

" My brother has been, and will always be, my closest friend. "

" For 'The Anthem,' a lot of my fans were like 'Oh, man, he's getting lazy making just, like, a pop format tune that everyone's doing these days.' But on this album, I wanted to write songs with vocals that would get stuck in my head, not just movements of instrumentals. "

" When you first start photographing a show or being into photography, you might think it's cool to see people with their phones, like, 'It's so novel; everyone cares about this moment so much,' but then it becomes... trite, y'know, and shallow. I think the best moments of my life have been spent without phones. "

" I love looking out at a sea of people. It's mind-blowing. But I also like playing clubs. "

" Everyone wants to grow, but I'm not trying to reinvent myself anytime soon. "

" My one experience with Lollapalooza was in 2009 - it was actually the first music festival I've ever been to. "

" Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self. "

" I have a top 10 list of my favorite movies of all time, and just for the sake of not having my top 5 be entirely Miyazaki films, I had to pick one. So, right now, my favorite Miyazaki film is probably 'Princess Mononoke.' "

" I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music. "

" We just love Denver. The love and support from people here is amazing. "

" I'm obsessed with the sound of today, but I was raised on the Motown sound. "

" If you make music with business in your head, it'll show. I make it from the heart. There's a difference. "

" I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It had its limits. I play piano now and again in the new forms of music that I actually want to play, but at the time, it was something that I just kind of moved past. "

" Being in the high-school band was some of the funnest years of my life. "

" I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul records. They just, like, take a clip of that and rap over it because, you know, that was just kind of what was up. "

" There was so much pressure to fit in, I tried to force myself to be like everyone else. The last thing any teen wants is to be 'uncool.' "

" Computers are really patient. They can sit there all day. It's a totally different situation dealing with humans. They can be tired or overly excited. "

" I wanna take a step forward, and I also wanna make sure that step forward is the step that I want and that I'm not being pressured by life. You try and get better at doing something, and a lot of the time, it's because somebody told you that you needed to be better. "

" My whole thing, to keep myself interested - and, you know, I'm a huge hip-hop head - I have tons and tons of a cappellas. So I do these live remix mash-ups with my tracks and just throw them in there. "

" I think it would be super, hella cool to hop into a cab & hear my song on the radio - like, 'Yeah!' - and also be like, 'Who is this Griz guy? He's horrible.' That'd be really cool. "

" The most important thing, to me is the intention of where things come from, like, why did you use it? What were the intentions of what you did? And if the intention is good, the intention is pure, then everything will turn out good. "

" I don't need more money. I don't need that to be happy. "

" Always focus on the music first. That's the big thing. Staying true to making good music and not sacrificing that for anything. "

" My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that's important. "

" In this day and age, I really just don't want to sell people on something. I don't want to have to sell you sound. I don't like selling emotions. Or ideas. I just want to give you these ideas and inspire people. "