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

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" We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure. "

" I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.' "

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

" Of course awards matter. "

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" A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life. "