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" I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them. "

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" I thought I was going to be an actor. I liked entertaining. I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age. My family was kind of musical, and there were people in the circus next door and actors across the road. I just enjoyed messing around with music growing up, but I really thought I was going to be an actor. "

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" I love hip hop, and I have a bunch of urban songs I write for fun that I can't put on my albums because people would laugh and point. "

" The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that. "

" I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don't know. "

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