Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" This has always been my life and no one else's, and that's how it's always been since the day I came in it. "

Related Quotes:

" Of course awards matter. "

" Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity? "

" The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance. "

" You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time. "

" It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies. "

" I don't fear anybody... at all. "

" I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that. "

" As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book. "

" You can't think; you just gotta do things. "

" I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened. "

" It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure. "

" I was a thug. "

" It's cool to be recognised by your peers. "

" I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important. "

" I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie. "

" As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that. "

" In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour. "

" I'm not a centerfold. "

" I believe that I'm one of the best in the world at what I do, and that's all I've ever wanted to be. "

" I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio. "

" Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play. "

" I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear. "

" My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth. "

" Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically. "

" There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness. "

" I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. "

" I might just write a novel next. I don't know! "

" The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing? "

" We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way. "

" Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times. "