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" I might just write a novel next. I don't know! "

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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. "

" I don't fear anybody... at all. "

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

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" Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time. "

" I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function. "

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" I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean. "

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

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

" I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance. "

" Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous. "

" We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way. "

" In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour. "

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" I hope not to define myself by suffering. "

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" Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity? "