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" Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on. "

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" It is totally cool to be gay. "

" My brother has been, and will always be, my closest friend. "

" My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now. "

" Stay in school and band, kids! It had its nerdy moments, and I always felt like I wanted to do something more with it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You need to be able to communicate your feelings. We need to be able to do that to feel empowered. "

" I like mixing things up. That makes it more interesting. I love mixing in slower funk with what I do. I'll add drum and bass and put my foot to the gas pedal and press it to the floor. "

" 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 also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music. "

" We just love Denver. The love and support from people here is amazing. "

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

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

" '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.' "

" 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 was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope. "

" There are always safe spaces. You can be a beacon for other people who are struggling. It's hard to put your heart out there and put it in other peoples' hands. But the receiving end is gentle. "

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

" I loved playing the saxophone. "

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

" I love what I do, and I do it 24/7, and it hurts my relationships very often, but it's worth it. "

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

" 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. "

" Being in the high-school band was some of the funnest years of my life. "

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

" Zelda is the best solo game; Mario Cart is the best group game. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "