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" When I listen to a Coldplay record, you're gonna hear an indie band, and you know that's what you're gonna get from Coldplay. With myself, I'm not sure it's the same. "
Labrinth
Myself
Know
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" I'm a perfectionist, and to actually finish something is good for me. "
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" I have learned that while your putting your record together you can get so caught up in making what you want that you forget what you wanted in the first place. "
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" English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring. "
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" I know this sounds weird, but I honestly believe music comes from the universe. Inspiration comes from the universe, and you drag it into your mind. "
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" I need to make money, but I don't want to be another guy selling his McDonald's to the pop market. "
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" I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that. "
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" I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts. "
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" I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was. "
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" I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages. "
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" Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background. "
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World
Me
Out
" My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles - it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing - why not put them together? "
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Way
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Children
" You've got to live and die by your decisions. "
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" Branding your song is the worst thing you can ever do. That's turning your song into a product. "
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" My mother brought up nine children, in Hackney, and none of us are criminals, none of us in jail. Her strength made me who I am today. "
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Mother
Children
Today
" I think, as an artist, I wear a lot of different hats, and people have to join all of the dots. "
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Hats
Artist
Think
" I don't think about the success that I've had - I've had a lot of success with music - but I always look at it like it's a new day. "
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Think
Day
Music
" I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different. "
Labrinth
Create
Back
Changes
" I really enjoy 'festival life,' as it were, and I love the reactions when I bring out my guitar on stage. The crowd are always a bit like, 'What the hell is this urban guy doing with a guitar,' and that's what I love - the shock element of it all! "
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Love
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Hell
" I'm a musical geek. It's like there's this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it. "
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Wild
Big
Head
" I don't want to be someone that, when people look back, they think, 'Yeah, cool, he made us jump around for a bit in 2010.' "
Labrinth
Jump
Back
Cool
" I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters of certain energies, and we all create different colours. "
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Artist
Different
You
" I'm from Hackney, and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than somebody from uptown that has lots of money. "
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Way
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" The first tour an artist does is a strange one... because you can never tell how the audience is going to react. "
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Artist
" I'm all for trying anything once; otherwise, you end up like David Guetta - reproducing the same formula over and over. "
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Trying
End
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" One thing I always really enjoyed about Quincy Jones' production technique was that there were so many layers to every song. Like, one week you'd hear a new trumpet-line, then the next week you'd hear - be hearing a new guitar-line. "
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Always
Like
New
" I try as much I can after every live performance to read all the comments my fans post on Facebook and Twitter, as this helps enormously for me to understand straight from fans what worked and what didn't. "
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" I'm a hundred percent a rock n' roll guy. "
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Hundred
Guy
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" My main thing is I just want to share as much hope and happiness as possible for music. If I can share as many moments and help people believe in themselves... if I can do that, then I'll feel like my job is done. "
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People
Hope
Happiness
" I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family. "
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Me
Happy
" I have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7. "
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Mac
Group
Formed