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" When I started making music, I just wanted to be the producer who sang the hooks. I wanted to be Pharrell, honestly, the one who made the beats and was in the music video with the girls. "

Syd

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" My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. "

" I think I see a lot of artists struggling to make their first album perfect, and I've been there. "

" Finding someone that trusted my vision helped me find certainty in who I was. "

" I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction mystery novels, and there'll be a couple more where I'll be redecorating a room in my house. "

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" If I have a session with an artist who I've never worked with before, they don't have to meet my parents, you know? Unless they want to. "

" I think my first client other than my brother was this kid named Tallent. I was charging him eight dollars an hour to record in my room. He kept coming back, then I went up to ten dollars an hour. "

" I want to be a great performer. "

" I started taking vocal lessons steadily. I started taking it seriously. "

" I love being part of a creative process, so having a band to work with is perfect for me. "

" I lived in a pretty big house, and we had a guesthouse, so when I was 14, I built a studio in my bedroom, which was pretty big. It was two rooms connected, so I turned the second into a studio and ran the mic in my closet. "

" I'm never a flashy type of person. "

" I don't really watch too many movies, but I try to watch inspirational pieces about other musicians. Musical documentaries truly inspire me. "

Syd

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" Performing live was something that I had to really work at. "

" If you ranked Odd Future, I was at the very bottom. "

" I think the selfie age is kind of making fame annoying. "

" I knew that if I just came out as a singer, people would just be criticizing my voice. "

" It was a nerve-wracking first few years having to tour and perform in front of people with the little bit of confidence I had. "

" I think that's what I learned a lot from Odd Future. I learned a lot of great things from them, but one of the mistakes that they made was that we didn't stay together, and we didn't communicate. We never had meetings. Everybody had issues with everybody else and wouldn't talk about it. "

" I've always been comfortable with my gayness, but I was intimidated by the social anxiety. "

" I think I see myself differently than most people see me. "

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" I hate the word 'lesbian.' "

" I used to feel like I wasn't a good songwriter when I couldn't finish a song by myself. "