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" I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.' "
The Weeknd
Music
Want
Working
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" A chorus is not easy. "
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Easy
Chorus
" 'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one. "
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Perfect
Special
Expectations
" From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat. "
The Weeknd
Toronto
Why
Never
" Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do. "
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Doing
Love
Nothing
" Going home helps the content. "
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Home
Content
Going
" I knew the second I finished the first record - 'House Of Balloons' - and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best. "
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First
Best
House
" I probably could have toured off 'Trilogy' for the rest of my life. It definitely changed the culture. No one can do a trilogy again without thanking The Weeknd. "
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Life
Culture
Without
" Me not finishing school - in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated. "
The Weeknd
Me
Someone
Talking
" When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me. "
The Weeknd
Me
Listening
Mother
" I want to be remembered as iconic and different. "
The Weeknd
Want
Remembered
Iconic
" Bragging just sounds good, man. "
The Weeknd
Good
Bragging
Man
" I was everything an R&B singer wasn't. I wasn't in shape. I wasn't a pretty boy. "
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Boy
Everything
Pretty
" I'm mainstream. "
The Weeknd
Mainstream
" Taylor Swift's audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all. "
The Weeknd
Audience
Me
Listen
" I spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long it takes. I'm such a visual artist as well that it always goes hand-in-hand. "
The Weeknd
Long
People
Well
" When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events. "
The Weeknd
Day
Women
Work
" When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark. "
The Weeknd
Sometimes
Dark
Light
" Let's be honest. Canada wasn't ever cool. "
The Weeknd
Canada
Ever
Honest
" The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music. "
The Weeknd
Hip-Hop
Music
Urban
" It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can't or won't see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish. "
The Weeknd
Black
See
Accomplish
" Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own. "
The Weeknd
My Own
Me
Fans
" I couldn't ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed. "
The Weeknd
Motivation
Home
Gone
" I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of. "
The Weeknd
Year
Drop
Three
" All I do is make music. "
The Weeknd
Music
Make
" I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing. "
The Weeknd
Second
Sing
Nature
" For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you're doing something good. "
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Kid
Good
Chubby
" Literally wrote 'Starboy' in 30 minutes. "
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Minutes
30 Minutes
Literally
" Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto. "
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You
Street
Kid
" I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding. "
The Weeknd
You
Face
Down
" I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.' "
The Weeknd
Way
Myself
Digital