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" I never wanna settle; I never wanna be complacent - I gotta outwork everybody. "
Poo Bear
Never
Complacent
Everybody
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" You can't get tired of something you don't know exists. "
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" It's cool to have a big record, but it's even cooler for the world to love it and sing along to it in every club word-for-word. It's a real feeling. "
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" Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're creating might not be as hot as it would have been during the time of your first hit. It definitely compromises the creative process when the music is changing and evolving so fast. If you're not on top of it, you will be forgotten. "
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" I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you're doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes. "
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" I've never stopped writing, I've never slowed down just because I don't have something on the radio or a No. 1 or No. 2 record. That doesn't mean that I'm not in the studio planting seeds. "
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" Just because I make something doesn't mean that it's going to be amazing, and most creative people don't like to admit when their music is just okay. "
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" My first significant break was when I was 15, going on 16, and my cousin Courtney 'Bear' Sills told me you can make a career out of writing songs. He was the one who put me in with 112. The first song I did with 112 was 'We Can Do It Anywhere.' "
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You
" I had people telling me how much I sucked and how bad my music was, but I didn't allow that to discourage me to the point where I didn't want to do music anymore. "
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" I've watched songwriters, writers, producers, even artists that I've written hits for come and go. But to the world, it looked like Justin Bieber was my first success. "
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Come And Go
Go
Like
" Ideally, it would be cool to actually get to know artists enough to know what their feelings are, what they believe in, what they want people to get from them, what they represent. "
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People
Cool
" People love music, but they also love the lifestyle and glam that comes along with it. "
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" I don't know about the rest of the world, but America loves redemption. They love giving people second chances. "
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America
World
" Working with Justin Bieber, I learned that he can literally do any genre - he's a chameleon. His voice is so flexible that he's not locked in to one genre, and it just shows the world that he can really sing anything. "
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" Being genuinely humble and being myself has helped me succeed in my career. "
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Succeed
Myself
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" I see my friends who have superstar lifestyles, and it's great to have hundreds of millions of dollars, but at the same time, it's a sacrifice of your own sanity. "
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Time
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Own
" I'm like this ghost - you look around, and all you see is the artist. But if you look at the credits, it's still Poo Bear. "
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Look
Ghost
Bear
" When you wake up every day, it's like a new birthday: it's a new chance to be great again and make great decisions. "
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Decisions
Wake Up
Great
" It's cool to be recognized, but it's not something that I was seeking or sought after. I never wanted to be famous. "
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Seeking
Something
Never
" I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do. "
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I Am
Feeling
Thinking
" I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio. "
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Sacrifice
" Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them. "
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" Toronto is my favourite city in the world. "
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City
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" For me, what makes a dope concept is it's a fresh idea, something that I've never heard before. "
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" I'm trying to stay a song ahead, two songs ahead of everybody else. "
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" I'm just used to working harder than everybody and other people taking the credit. "
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" Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people. "
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" Finally, I've reached a place where if I'm working with an artist, they allow me to just do whatever I feel. Growing up, it was like, 'We want another 'Peaches and Cream.' Then you realise... why would you want a 2001 Mercedes Benz when I'm making 2018 Benzes? "
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" I don't want to be an artist; I don't really want to sing - though I do sing on a few songs. But I want to be the guy that presents new music from both new artists and established artists at the same time. "
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" I don't listen to the radio. "
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Listen
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