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" My dad makes me breakfast every morning; he's very worried about my nutrition. "
Syd
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" I learned everything I knew about recording and engineering from my experience with Odd Future, so I was pretty comfortable with not having much. "
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" I sing, but I'm not a singer. I'm just a producer who sings on her own songs because I can't find anybody else who sounds like me. "
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" My mom wasn't expecting me to end up how I ended up. When she wanted to have kids, she wanted to have two girls, and then she got my brother and me. Which is a disappointment to anybody. You can't help it. "
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" I lived in a pretty big house, and we had a guesthouse, so when I was 14, I built a studio in my bedroom, which was pretty big. It was two rooms connected, so I turned the second into a studio and ran the mic in my closet. "
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" I was a loner; I spent the first half of high school alone. "
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" I like that I'm an engineer - it sets me apart from a lot of other artists. "
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" When I was 14 and I wanted to buy stuff, I didn't like asking for stuff from my parents, so I started a couple companies, and the last one ended up being my studio. "
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" I grew up watching 'American Idol.' "
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" I'm just a really shy person. I don't gravitate towards attention, so for someone like me to have as much attention as I have is bizarre. "
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" I want to say I hate my generation, but I don't. "
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" I have an uncle in Jamaica who's an OG producer/songwriter over there, Mikey Bennett. "
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" I feel like once you go with a band, it's hard to go back. I just don't see myself performing without a band. "
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" Feeling invisible definitely makes you want to become visible sometimes. "
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" I think I'm influenced a lot by Drake in specific ways in my writing. "
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" I have stopped going out places just to avoid uncomfortable conversations. "
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" I get kinda nervous before every show. "
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" If I have a session with an artist who I've never worked with before, they don't have to meet my parents, you know? Unless they want to. "
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" As far as open conversations with random people, no I don't really enjoy them. "
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" I think I see myself differently than most people see me. "
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" When I started making music, I just wanted to be the producer who sang the hooks. I wanted to be Pharrell, honestly, the one who made the beats and was in the music video with the girls. "
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" I never think I work hard enough, as much things I have on my plate. "
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" I've written songs about women since I've been involved with women, but I do know a few gay female artists who, back in the day, would write songs about men. "
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Gay
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" I think my first client other than my brother was this kid named Tallent. I was charging him eight dollars an hour to record in my room. He kept coming back, then I went up to ten dollars an hour. "
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" The gay community hated me for being part of Odd Future. They thought Odd Future was homophobic because they tend to use homophobic slang, and they were like: 'How can you work for and support homophobes?' But they aren't homophobic; they just don't really care whether you're offended or not. "
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" For Odd Future, I only made beats for Mike G. With the Internet, I'm part of a production team making tracks for me to sing over. "
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" My dad's a businessman, and I grew up looking up to him, how he dressed to go to work and, whenever I went to his office, how he spoke to people. "
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" If you think I'm a young boy singing these songs, dope. Run with that. "
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" Studying James Fauntleroy, I learned it's okay to write a bad song. Just write another one the next day and hope that it's better. "
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" If you want to be a pioneer, you have to be intentional, at least a little bit. "
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