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" It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can't or won't see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish. "

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" I was everything an R&B singer wasn't. I wasn't in shape. I wasn't a pretty boy. "

" The game is changing with songs like 'Earned It' as opposed to it changing me. "

" 'Kiss Land' is the story after 'Trilogy'; it's pretty much the second chapter of my life. The narrative takes place after my first flight; it's very foreign, very Asian-inspired. When people ask me, 'Why Japan?' I simply tell them it's the furthest I've ever been from home. It really is a different planet. "

" I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of. "

" The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing. "

" For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude. "

" I'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else. "

" 'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one. "

" To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into 'Starboy' is an honor. "

" When I was performing the songs on 'Kiss Land,' it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There's maybe two choruses on all of 'Kiss Land.' "

" I'm the most boring person to talk to. "

" I'm mainstream. "

" My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house. "

" When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music. "

" I have a good team. It's good to have a good team. "

" I don't believe in icons. "

" If you ever see young artists, and they're not sounding good, they sound good. They're good singers. They wouldn't be where they are if they didn't sound good. It's their nerves. Any time you see your favorite artist, and he's or she's screwing up or not hitting those notes, it's not because she can't hit it or she can't sing; he or she is scared. "

" When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events. "

" I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced. "

" When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me. "

" I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous. "

" Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was. "

" I couldn't ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed. "

" When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre. "

" The vibe on 'Starboy' comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid. "

" I've grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change. "

" Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed. "

" Marriage is scary to me, man. "

" I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.' "

" People always say when they meet me that I'm not what they expect. I assume they think I'm this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work. "