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" It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure. "

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" My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth. "

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

" I don't intend to stop making music. "

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" Of course awards matter. "

" I hope not to define myself by suffering. "

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" When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should write.' "

" I was a thug. "

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" 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.' "

" I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories. "

" People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear. "

" I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that. "

" The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me. "

" I don't fear anybody... at all. "

" When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family - not even my mother - who I could look to and be like, 'I know you've never said anything homophobic.' So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you've heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that. "

" 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 written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer. "

" 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. "

" We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure. "

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