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" Marriage is scary to me, man. "
The Weeknd
Scary
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Me
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" I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous. "
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" From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat. "
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" 'Thursday' is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation. "
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" Let's be honest. Canada wasn't ever cool. "
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" The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in. "
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" 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. "
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" I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it's such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it's therapeutic. "
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" I have a good team. It's good to have a good team. "
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" 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. "
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" I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced. "
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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. "
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Down
" I feel like I'm changing pop culture. "
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I Feel
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" I'm all about evolution. I'm the first person to judge myself. "
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Judge
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" 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.' "
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Kiss
Land
" When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre. "
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" '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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't believe in icons. "
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Icons
" I make good music for long journeys. "
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Long
" I didn't have a father figure in the house. "
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" My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all. "
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Songwriting
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" I want to be remembered as iconic and different. "
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" I probably could have toured off 'Trilogy' for the rest of my life. It definitely changed the culture. No one can do a trilogy again without thanking The Weeknd. "
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" A chorus is not easy. "
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" I'm a huge fan of R. Kelly's. He's a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine. "
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Before
" Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word - and actually wanting to see you. "
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" Music is like film to me. "
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" I think that's why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven't given people everything. "
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" I'm pretty laid-back in real life. I just love hanging with my friends and making jokes. The jokes don't stop - literally, all day. "
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