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" I'm obsessed with the sound of today, but I was raised on the Motown sound. "

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" There is so much energy when you work with other people. I'm working with friends and having a blast. "

" My one experience with Lollapalooza was in 2009 - it was actually the first music festival I've ever been to. "

" I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It had its limits. I play piano now and again in the new forms of music that I actually want to play, but at the time, it was something that I just kind of moved past. "

" I love hip-hop, and I like the beats the most. "

" I think we're finally in a culture now where being gay is normalized. "

" If you make music with business in your head, it'll show. I make it from the heart. There's a difference. "

" I wanna take a step forward, and I also wanna make sure that step forward is the step that I want and that I'm not being pressured by life. You try and get better at doing something, and a lot of the time, it's because somebody told you that you needed to be better. "

" Always focus on the music first. That's the big thing. Staying true to making good music and not sacrificing that for anything. "

" I love looking out at a sea of people. It's mind-blowing. But I also like playing clubs. "

" My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that's important. "

" It's all about the music. Everything else is just extra. "

" My whole thing, to keep myself interested - and, you know, I'm a huge hip-hop head - I have tons and tons of a cappellas. So I do these live remix mash-ups with my tracks and just throw them in there. "

" I think it would be super, hella cool to hop into a cab & hear my song on the radio - like, 'Yeah!' - and also be like, 'Who is this Griz guy? He's horrible.' That'd be really cool. "

" Most of the people that work for me are my friends, and I'd like to keep it that way. "

" In this day and age, I really just don't want to sell people on something. I don't want to have to sell you sound. I don't like selling emotions. Or ideas. I just want to give you these ideas and inspire people. "

" Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self. "

" The environment of San Francisco has so much history to it that I really appreciate. Musically, socially, and culturally. There's this new culture of people; it's a crazy place to be. "

" My vision is a blend of the old school and the new school, but with zero rules. "

" I don't need more money. I don't need that to be happy. "

" When I was a kid, I was a really bad collaborator. I was pretty introverted. "

" I like mixing things up. That makes it more interesting. I love mixing in slower funk with what I do. I'll add drum and bass and put my foot to the gas pedal and press it to the floor. "

" Computers are really patient. They can sit there all day. It's a totally different situation dealing with humans. They can be tired or overly excited. "

" There was so much pressure to fit in, I tried to force myself to be like everyone else. The last thing any teen wants is to be 'uncool.' "

" My parents took a fairly liberal approach at raising me, always encouraging me to be creative and free-thinking. "

" I haven't written my favorite song yet, and I hope I never do. "

" Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on. "

" My brother has been, and will always be, my closest friend. "

" I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines. "

" I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot. "