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

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" I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding. "

" Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto. "

" Alternative R&B is in my soul. It's not going anywhere. "

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" I mean... in life... what relationship is easy? "

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" 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. "

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

" For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you're doing something good. "

" I want to be remembered as iconic and different. "

" The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past; you just know what his plans are. "

" I spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long it takes. I'm such a visual artist as well that it always goes hand-in-hand. "

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" Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do. "

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