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" You've got to live and die by your decisions. "

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" I think, as an artist, I wear a lot of different hats, and people have to join all of the dots. "

" You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious. "

" My brothers came home with country, jazz, everything... it was always very normal to me to make any type of music. It was possible to fuse all the sounds, so it never sounded confusing to me to mix jazz and dubstep. "

" 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. "

" As a breed, I think artists are never 100% satisfied with their work, and we will always want that little bit of extra time to put the final gloss on it. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" I need to make money, but I don't want to be another guy selling his McDonald's to the pop market. "

" I got into music through just being inspired by my brother and sisters. They all sing, play instruments and write - and they're very good at it. "

" Different cultures produce a different 'cool.' And your perception of 'cool' changes depending on where you are. "

" I think producing a record for other artists is almost like giving them advice, and I would say that it is easier to produce another artist than it is to produce yourself. "

" I'm a perfectionist, and to actually finish something is good for me. "

" My fans are like, 'Lab does what he does,' which is really cool. If I came out with a Jack White rock tune tomorrow, people would be like, 'Yeah, cool man,' which is great. "

" 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. "

" When you make a record, I always imagine people dancing to it. If the chef thinks it tastes good, then there will be someone who ultimately believes the same thing. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts. "

" 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. "

" It's a lot easier producing for people or being in the background, and they can take all the fire from the front. But in order to express the ideas that I have without any kind of contamination, I thought it would be a cool thing to be out front. "

" You can't go up to girls and start talking about minor 7ths and expect to pull. It's not going to work. "

" I have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7. "

" Those that know me know that I'm not 100% in love with commercial pop music. It's not my preferred genre - I don't do squeaky clean pop. "

" Branding your song is the worst thing you can ever do. That's turning your song into a product. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I want to be a little bit brave. I want to feel scared sometimes. That's what's going to change the music business, if we have that kind of attitude. "

" 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. "

" You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them. "