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" I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he's Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I'm a big fan of his. "

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" I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would stop and say, 'Oh, that's the hook right there,' I'll move that to the first four bars of the verse and do a new hook. "

" To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label. "

" I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out. "

" 'Perfection' to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, 'I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.' I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection. "

" Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words. "

" People like to build their own story about my life. I don't know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich. "

" I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day. "

" I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap. "

" Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along. "

" I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes. "

" I respect Chris Brown. I'd like to call myself a friend - I don't know if I'm allowed to do that. "

" I'm not going to lie; listen, I'm nice at basketball. "

" Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy. "

" My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah. "

" You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don't know if I want to be that guy. "

" A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It's a real emotional ride. "

" I'd rather tell you how I really feel. "

" I'm cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend. "

" My mother made me truly appreciate women. "

" Kanye West is my favorite artist. "

" Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show - that's not really where it's at any more. It's becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed. "

" I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down. "

" There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it's all just noise that lets me know that I'm relevant. "

" When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you. "

" My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool. "

" When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty. "

" I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-destructive state where we're addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans. "

" There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing. "

" There are a lot of good women in New York. "

" It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident. "