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" I think it would be super, hella cool to hop into a cab & hear my song on the radio - like, 'Yeah!' - and also be like, 'Who is this Griz guy? He's horrible.' That'd be really cool. "

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" My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that's important. "

GRiZ

Music

My Life

Flow

" Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on. "

" I think we're finally in a culture now where being gay is normalized. "

" There are always safe spaces. You can be a beacon for other people who are struggling. It's hard to put your heart out there and put it in other peoples' hands. But the receiving end is gentle. "

" My brother has been, and will always be, my closest friend. "

" I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot. "

" My one experience with Lollapalooza was in 2009 - it was actually the first music festival I've ever been to. "

" I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself. "

GRiZ

Music

Myself

" I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul records. They just, like, take a clip of that and rap over it because, you know, that was just kind of what was up. "

" It is totally cool to be gay. "

" In this day and age, I really just don't want to sell people on something. I don't want to have to sell you sound. I don't like selling emotions. Or ideas. I just want to give you these ideas and inspire people. "

" There is so much energy when you work with other people. I'm working with friends and having a blast. "

" I love looking out at a sea of people. It's mind-blowing. But I also like playing clubs. "

" I haven't written my favorite song yet, and I hope I never do. "

" No matter what happens with EDM, I would like to go to New Orleans and just play with one of those small funk bands in an intimate venue. How cool would it be to work with a band with those huge horn lines and produce all of that great funk that makes you just want to party? "

" I love playing live and creating these records that people are so into. "

" You need to be able to communicate your feelings. We need to be able to do that to feel empowered. "

" Everyone wants to grow, but I'm not trying to reinvent myself anytime soon. "

" Always focus on the music first. That's the big thing. Staying true to making good music and not sacrificing that for anything. "

" Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self. "

" My vision is a blend of the old school and the new school, but with zero rules. "

" I wanna take a step forward, and I also wanna make sure that step forward is the step that I want and that I'm not being pressured by life. You try and get better at doing something, and a lot of the time, it's because somebody told you that you needed to be better. "

" My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now. "

GRiZ

Roots

Seen

" The environment of San Francisco has so much history to it that I really appreciate. Musically, socially, and culturally. There's this new culture of people; it's a crazy place to be. "

" Being in the high-school band was some of the funnest years of my life. "

" I have a top 10 list of my favorite movies of all time, and just for the sake of not having my top 5 be entirely Miyazaki films, I had to pick one. So, right now, my favorite Miyazaki film is probably 'Princess Mononoke.' "

" For 'The Anthem,' a lot of my fans were like 'Oh, man, he's getting lazy making just, like, a pop format tune that everyone's doing these days.' But on this album, I wanted to write songs with vocals that would get stuck in my head, not just movements of instrumentals. "

" Most of the people that work for me are my friends, and I'd like to keep it that way. "

GRiZ

Work

Friends

" When I was a kid, I was a really bad collaborator. I was pretty introverted. "

" I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines. "