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" I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd. "

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" The vibe on 'Starboy' comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid. "

" Alternative R&B is in my soul. It's not going anywhere. "

" I don't think I'd ever apologise for music I make, no. "

" Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own. "

" I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same. "

" Literally wrote 'Starboy' in 30 minutes. "

" Music is like film to me. "

" I didn't have a father figure in the house. "

" 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. "

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

" At one point, I didn't care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible. "

" Let's be honest. Canada wasn't ever cool. "

" 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. "

" From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat. "

" I want to be remembered as iconic and different. "

" We're all insecure, aren't we? I'm not walking around like I'm macho man or anything. "

" I've had sleep paralysis. "

" Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning. "

" Going home helps the content. "

" 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. "

" My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure. "

" 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. "

" I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me. "

" OVOXO will always be there. "

" 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. "

" A chorus is not easy. "

" I'm mainstream. "

" '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. "

" The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. "