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" I'm a perfectionist, and to actually finish something is good for me. "

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" I don't see categories; I don't see styles - l see them all gelled together. And it was gospel that definitely helped me to do that. "

" I think, as an artist, I wear a lot of different hats, and people have to join all of the dots. "

" Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background. "

" My main thing is I just want to share as much hope and happiness as possible for music. If I can share as many moments and help people believe in themselves... if I can do that, then I'll feel like my job is done. "

" You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious. "

" I'm all for trying anything once; otherwise, you end up like David Guetta - reproducing the same formula over and over. "

" You've got to live and die by your decisions. "

" I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters of certain energies, and we all create different colours. "

" My fans are like, 'Lab does what he does,' which is really cool. If I came out with a Jack White rock tune tomorrow, people would be like, 'Yeah, cool man,' which is great. "

" When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive. "

" I need to make money, but I don't want to be another guy selling his McDonald's to the pop market. "

" It's a lot easier producing for people or being in the background, and they can take all the fire from the front. But in order to express the ideas that I have without any kind of contamination, I thought it would be a cool thing to be out front. "

" I try as much I can after every live performance to read all the comments my fans post on Facebook and Twitter, as this helps enormously for me to understand straight from fans what worked and what didn't. "

" I have learned that while your putting your record together you can get so caught up in making what you want that you forget what you wanted in the first place. "

" I don't want to be someone that, when people look back, they think, 'Yeah, cool, he made us jump around for a bit in 2010.' "

" I want to be a little bit brave. I want to feel scared sometimes. That's what's going to change the music business, if we have that kind of attitude. "

" I got into music through just being inspired by my brother and sisters. They all sing, play instruments and write - and they're very good at it. "

" I have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7. "

" Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree. "

" My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles - it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing - why not put them together? "

" Branding your song is the worst thing you can ever do. That's turning your song into a product. "

" I'm a musical geek. It's like there's this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it. "

" You can't go up to girls and start talking about minor 7ths and expect to pull. It's not going to work. "

" I'm from Hackney, and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than somebody from uptown that has lots of money. "

" I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family. "

" I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that. "

" Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are. "

" I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was. "

" Those that know me know that I'm not 100% in love with commercial pop music. It's not my preferred genre - I don't do squeaky clean pop. "

" One thing I always really enjoyed about Quincy Jones' production technique was that there were so many layers to every song. Like, one week you'd hear a new trumpet-line, then the next week you'd hear - be hearing a new guitar-line. "