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" If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice. "

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" My favorite color is jungle green. At least, that's what it said on the side of my favorite crayon in first grade. I don't know if it's an official color. "

" I know it sounds corny, but I look for a girl that has a beautiful personality on the inside. "

" I had an initial wave of popularity that, in time, crashed, and I slowly became less popular and less successful, and I had to figure out who I was without those things. "

" You need to stop looking outside and look inside - and it's such a good feeling. A feeling of love and that everything is going to be OK, and all you have to do is nothing. "

" I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label. "

" My focus is to try to appreciate the present moment more and more and more. "

" My favorite television show is 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.' "

" Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an interview, I'm scared to say who they are. "

" How can a song all about struggling with the afterglow of fame thrust someone into fame? How can a lyric like, 'I'm just a singer who already blew his shot,' give a singer another shot? I don't know... but it's funny. "

" I love the fact that I don't have a real job! "

" That's why I make mixtapes. That's why I work with Don Cannon; that's why i work with Big Sean. Even though I don't rap, I got love and acceptance in that community, and that's something that I really take seriously and hold close to my heart. "

" It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics. "

" Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often. "

" I've always had an eclectic taste in music. But what I try to do is combine these things in ways that others would never think of, like putting Bun B on an Elton John song. "

" I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old. "

" I think it should be socially acceptable for men to like 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt. "

" I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset. "

" I feel super, super grateful that I get to make music. "

" When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that. "

" If my career was a basketball season, I'm in the pre-season still. I'm not blowing everybody out by 40 - there's so much work to be done, and there's no time to really sit and look back and be proud of what I've done yet, because it's the pre-season still. "

" People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing. "

" Some of my early musical memories are attached to grunge. "

" I like regular girls. "

" I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough. "

" I thought, 'Oh that's what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.' Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing. "

" I'm scared to give gratitude to the people that, if I hadn't heard their stuff, I wouldn't be able to make music. "

" I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning. "

" I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don't think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I'm sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn't really ever think I was going to be a famous musician. "

" I remember being 24 in Los Angeles. And up until that moment, when my mom would call my cell phone and it would ring, I would be flushed with some sort of excitement that we all have - a little dopamine rush, when my phone rings - and I'd look down, and it would say, 'Mom.' It used to feel like a job to pick that up. "