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" I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. "

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" Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically. "

" 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? "

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

" It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure. "

" I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another. "

" I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer's block. "

" 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. "

" I worked my face off. "

" I'm not a centerfold. "

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

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

" I play piano every day. I enjoy that. "

" The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me. "

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

" I need to know how many records I've sold, how many album equivalents from streaming, which territories are playing my music more than others, because it helps me in conversations about where we're gonna be playing shows or where I might open a retail location, like a pop-up store or something. "

" How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid. "

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

" I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer. "

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

" I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened. "

" I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time. "