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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. "

The Weeknd

Fans

Feel

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

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Secrets

" 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.' "

" All of my music is honest. "

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Music

" I don't believe in icons. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Marriage is scary to me, man. "

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Scary

Man

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

" Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning. "

" 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. "

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Always

Inspiration

" 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. "

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

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Listening

Mother

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

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

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Smart

Street

" 'Thursday' is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation. "

" My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure. "

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

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Music

Environment

" The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past; you just know what his plans are. "

" 'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one. "

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

" Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do. "

" Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work - that's Prince to me. "

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Body

Storytelling

" I feel like I'm changing pop culture. "