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I feel that when I listen to music - not that it's bad - it's not emotional. It has a gimmick to it. It's selling something: the artist, the producer, something. The emotional capacity is very small, for the listener as well.
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If you're not confident, people push you around. That's it. It's super-simple.
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I'm great at working with people and collaborating. And if my biggest gift of all is that I'm really good at pulling things from people and helping them become better at what they're doing, I'm here, as I believe all of us are, to be of service.
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Food is supposed to be vibrant, fresh, filled with color.
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Sometimes I'll look back at old pictures where I'm a little heavy and dressed funny and think, 'How did I get chicks all the time?'
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For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something that you've created, just that experience is enormous. You don't get that all the time.
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For me, Heaven is evoking emotions through sound.
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Record companies don't think creatively about what something could possibly be because they are not filled with creative people. Nobody's looking at the future of music because they're concentrating so hard on what they can get from it right this second. It's really hard to see an artist; it's a lot easier to see money.
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I'm a songwriter, an artist, and a musician. I do not have to try to be that; I just am.
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I don't think I could make a pop album.
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I would love for Radiohead to give me a call and say, 'Hey, kid, we wanna see what it's like working with you. We want you to produce our next record.'
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Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion.
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There's a lot of artists that are celebrities, not really artists.
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I love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different.
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You create something in your bedroom or your house, and it's just a fun thing that you're doing. Then, all of a sudden, you hear that song that you started in your house, and it's on the radio. And people are now acknowledging it. It's just trippy. What a life.
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You need a big team to support a career.
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I nurture people's talents because, at the end of it, that's what they're left with. They're left with themselves.
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To me, I feel like everything I touch will do good. Because my heart and my passion is all in the right spot. And you can't go wrong with that. But maybe I'm naive.
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I want to be a producer and not a songwriter.
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I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love.
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I don't care if I go broke. I don't care about all that stuff. I just want to know that I did everything I wanted to do.
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It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying to write a song based on where you're at right at this moment.
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I'm really good at bringing out greatness - in anybody. I don't even have to be in the studio. What a gift to be able to help people bring out the best qualities in them.
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One day, it hit me that music is my calling. I just started playing and writing music. How, I don't know. I just started doing it, and then this big voice came out of my mouth. And it felt like I was releasing something.