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" I think that's why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven't given people everything. "

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" Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed. "

" Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do. "

" I just love Bowie. I think he's the ultimate inventor. "

" OVOXO will always be there. "

" The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in 'The Dark Knight' had the scar across his mouth, and the first time you heard his explanation for it, he makes you believe that's how he got it. But then you get into the film, and every time he talks about his scar, it's a totally different story. "

" I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it's such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it's therapeutic. "

" 'Thursday' is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation. "

" I'm a huge fan of R. Kelly's. He's a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine. "

" Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music. "

" I knew the second I finished the first record - 'House Of Balloons' - and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best. "

" The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in. "

" People always say when they meet me that I'm not what they expect. I assume they think I'm this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work. "

" I mean... in life... what relationship is easy? "

" When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters. "

" Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was. "

" I feel like I'm changing pop culture. "

" My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all. "

" I'm a studio rat. "

" Bragging just sounds good, man. "

" I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like 'Secrets' and 'Rockin',' almost like Toni Braxton. On 'Secrets,' I'm a different person. "

" I don't believe in icons. "

" I'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else. "

" Music is like film to me. "

" The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past; you just know what his plans are. "

" 'Kiss Land' wasn't about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in - introverted, like David Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch.' You didn't know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts. "

" I feel like I'm the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids. "

" You aren't normal if you sing to people. You aren't a normal person. It's nerve-racking. "