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" I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider. "

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" Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio. "

" It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records. "

" Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time. "

" I make pop culture. "

" My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out. "

" I was a thug. "

" Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play. "

" I had writer's block for almost a year. "

" I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer's block. "

" It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn't reaping the lion's share of the profits, and that was problematic for me. "

" I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear. "

" I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another. "

" I need to know how many records I've sold, how many album equivalents from streaming, which territories are playing my music more than others, because it helps me in conversations about where we're gonna be playing shows or where I might open a retail location, like a pop-up store or something. "

" The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool. "

" I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.' "

" There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness. "

" I'm big on what's in good taste. "

" I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular. "

" I worked my face off. "

" You can't think; you just gotta do things. "

" The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing? "

" You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible. "

" Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years. "

" I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. "

" When you write a song like 'Forrest Gump,' the subject can't be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort. "

" The work is the work. The work is not me. "

" I might just write a novel next. I don't know! "

" I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder. "

" I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work. "

" It's cool to be recognised by your peers. "