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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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 enjoy singing my songs in front of people. "

" In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour. "

" I'm not a centerfold. "

" I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that. "

" Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically. "

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

" 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 play piano every day. I enjoy that. "

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

" I worked my face off. "

" I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio. "

" As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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? "

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

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

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

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

" Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity? "

" I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. "

" I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important. "

" 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. "

" In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. "

" 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 can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function. "