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" '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. "

The Weeknd

My Life

People

Story

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" I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.' "

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

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People

Kind

" For the chorus of 'Secrets,' we used The Romantics' 'Talking in Your Sleep' and 'Pale Shelter' by Tears for Fears. It's like hip-hop: just grab it. "

" When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters. "

" The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you're in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life - you write about the mindset you're in at that moment. "

" 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. "

" The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. "

" 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 feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world - from religion to race. "

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

The Weeknd

Good

Team

" 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 always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious. "

" I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd. "

" The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in. "

" Let's be honest. Canada wasn't ever cool. "

" I knew the second I finished the first record - 'House Of Balloons' - and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best. "

" From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat. "

" You aren't normal if you sing to people. You aren't a normal person. It's nerve-racking. "

" 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. "

" I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and 'Off the Wall' was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing. "

The Weeknd

Always

Inspiration

" I think that's why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven't given people everything. "

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

" Environment is very important to me. Sometimes I have to perform during the day for festivals, and my music does not work in the daytime. It is nighttime music. "

The Weeknd

Music

Environment

" I love trying new things. "

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

" Music is like film to me. "

The Weeknd

Film

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

The Weeknd

Listening

Mother

" My closet is like Bart Simpson's. "

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