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" My one experience with Lollapalooza was in 2009 - it was actually the first music festival I've ever been to. "

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" I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot. "

" I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines. "

" My parents took a fairly liberal approach at raising me, always encouraging me to be creative and free-thinking. "

" My vision is a blend of the old school and the new school, but with zero rules. "

" I wanna take a step forward, and I also wanna make sure that step forward is the step that I want and that I'm not being pressured by life. You try and get better at doing something, and a lot of the time, it's because somebody told you that you needed to be better. "

" It is totally cool to be gay. "

" If you make music with business in your head, it'll show. I make it from the heart. There's a difference. "

" For 'The Anthem,' a lot of my fans were like 'Oh, man, he's getting lazy making just, like, a pop format tune that everyone's doing these days.' But on this album, I wanted to write songs with vocals that would get stuck in my head, not just movements of instrumentals. "

" In this day and age, I really just don't want to sell people on something. I don't want to have to sell you sound. I don't like selling emotions. Or ideas. I just want to give you these ideas and inspire people. "

" Most of the people that work for me are my friends, and I'd like to keep it that way. "

" I loved playing the saxophone. "

" Always focus on the music first. That's the big thing. Staying true to making good music and not sacrificing that for anything. "

" I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul records. They just, like, take a clip of that and rap over it because, you know, that was just kind of what was up. "

" I'm obsessed with the sound of today, but I was raised on the Motown sound. "

" When I was a kid, I was a really bad collaborator. I was pretty introverted. "

" Everyone wants to grow, but I'm not trying to reinvent myself anytime soon. "

" I love looking out at a sea of people. It's mind-blowing. But I also like playing clubs. "

" I think we're finally in a culture now where being gay is normalized. "

" My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that's important. "

" I have a top 10 list of my favorite movies of all time, and just for the sake of not having my top 5 be entirely Miyazaki films, I had to pick one. So, right now, my favorite Miyazaki film is probably 'Princess Mononoke.' "

" When you first start photographing a show or being into photography, you might think it's cool to see people with their phones, like, 'It's so novel; everyone cares about this moment so much,' but then it becomes... trite, y'know, and shallow. I think the best moments of my life have been spent without phones. "

" The most important thing, to me is the intention of where things come from, like, why did you use it? What were the intentions of what you did? And if the intention is good, the intention is pure, then everything will turn out good. "

" It's all about the music. Everything else is just extra. "

" I haven't written my favorite song yet, and I hope I never do. "

" No matter what happens with EDM, I would like to go to New Orleans and just play with one of those small funk bands in an intimate venue. How cool would it be to work with a band with those huge horn lines and produce all of that great funk that makes you just want to party? "

" I don't need more money. I don't need that to be happy. "

" 'Say It Loud' came from many, many small battles. From, 'I hate myself, and I hate this,' to, 'I love this, and it's my favorite thing...' to, 'This is the best thing in existence.' "

" I think it would be super, hella cool to hop into a cab & hear my song on the radio - like, 'Yeah!' - and also be like, 'Who is this Griz guy? He's horrible.' That'd be really cool. "

" I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself. "