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" Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan. "

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" I don't despise people. "

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" My attention span is very short. "

" I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears. "

" I will not start an initiative until I've spent my own money. Because if I spend my own money, people who want to get on board afterwards know that I am serious about it. "

" Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting. "

" The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music. "

" I remember when I was 19, it was pretty tough. "

" If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off. "

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" I don't want to preach to people. "

" There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?' "

" I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma. "

" You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology. "

" Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one. "

" Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever. "

" You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment. "

" How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts. "

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" I'm fascinated with quantum physics. "

" Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself. "

" When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down. "

" My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing. "

" We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream. "

" Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing. "

" Romantic love is painful. "

" We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them. "

" I don't need anyone to validate me. "

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" Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be. "

" I've got Republican fans. Republicans like the Black Eyed Peas. "