Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

The Weeknd

Life

Day

Stop

" 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. "

" People always say when they meet me that I'm not what they expect. I assume they think I'm this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work. "

" My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house. "

" When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music. "

The Weeknd

People

Kind

" I spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long it takes. I'm such a visual artist as well that it always goes hand-in-hand. "

" I get naturally uncomfortable when I'm put under a magnifying glass. "

" I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me. "

The Weeknd

People

Music

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

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

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

The Weeknd

Smart

Street

" 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. "

" For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you're doing something good. "

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

" I'm the most boring person to talk to. "

" I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced. "

" Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was. "

" All I do is make music. "

The Weeknd

Music

Make

" Marriage is scary to me, man. "

The Weeknd

Scary

Man

" I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand. "

" When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre. "

" It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can't or won't see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish. "

" Taylor Swift's audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all. "

The Weeknd

Audience

Listen

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

" From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat. "

" Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto. "

" I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.' "

" Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own. "

The Weeknd

My Own

Fans

" A chorus is not easy. "

The Weeknd

Easy

Chorus