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" I use Logic or Reason and a midi keyboard for beats. If it's gonna have all live instruments in it, I'll probably use Pro Tools and have the band lay stuff down. "

Syd

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Down

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" Kaytranada's a really cool dude. "

" I think I see a lot of artists struggling to make their first album perfect, and I've been there. "

" My parents have always been supportive of whatever I've wanted to do. "

" I was really inspired, working with Odd Future. "

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Syd

Inspirational

Musicians

" As far as open conversations with random people, no I don't really enjoy them. "

" I, for one, am, like, the most ordinary person. Like, people look past me all the time because I'm just so blending in. "

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" It took me a very long time to be comfortable in my own skin. "

" I've always known I was a genius. But I never thought I was a star. "

" I'm just a really shy person. I don't gravitate towards attention, so for someone like me to have as much attention as I have is bizarre. "

Syd

Shy

Someone

" I never think I work hard enough, as much things I have on my plate. "

" Performing live was something that I had to really work at. "

" I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction mystery novels, and there'll be a couple more where I'll be redecorating a room in my house. "

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Know

House

" I started taking vocal lessons steadily. I started taking it seriously. "

" My dad makes me breakfast every morning; he's very worried about my nutrition. "

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Morning

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" I learned everything I knew about recording and engineering from my experience with Odd Future, so I was pretty comfortable with not having much. "

" I knew that if I just came out as a singer, people would just be criticizing my voice. "

" If you ranked Odd Future, I was at the very bottom. "

" I'm sure that, on some level of the major-label and old-establishment industry, there are execs and agents who think homosexuality is a liability. "

" I think my first client other than my brother was this kid named Tallent. I was charging him eight dollars an hour to record in my room. He kept coming back, then I went up to ten dollars an hour. "

" My mom wasn't expecting me to end up how I ended up. When she wanted to have kids, she wanted to have two girls, and then she got my brother and me. Which is a disappointment to anybody. You can't help it. "

" The gay community hated me for being part of Odd Future. They thought Odd Future was homophobic because they tend to use homophobic slang, and they were like: 'How can you work for and support homophobes?' But they aren't homophobic; they just don't really care whether you're offended or not. "