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" 'Kiss Land' wasn't about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in - introverted, like David Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch.' You didn't know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts. "

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" I'm all about evolution. I'm the first person to judge myself. "

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

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

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

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

" I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like 'Secrets' and 'Rockin',' almost like Toni Braxton. On 'Secrets,' I'm a different person. "

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

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

" For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece that men wear every day, and it's something that I would wear for any occasion, whether it's on the street or going to an awards ceremony. "

" 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. "

" Me not finishing school - in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated. "

" My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway. "

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" The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music. "

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

" It's almost schizophrenic who I portray in my music. "

" I'm a studio rat. "

" 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. "

" Marriage is scary to me, man. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song. "

" I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand. "

" I'm mainstream. "

" The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in 'The Dark Knight' had the scar across his mouth, and the first time you heard his explanation for it, he makes you believe that's how he got it. But then you get into the film, and every time he talks about his scar, it's a totally different story. "

" A chorus is not easy. "

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

" 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. "