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The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.
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For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you're doing something good.
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You aren't normal if you sing to people. You aren't a normal person. It's nerve-racking.
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I'm all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it's called 'Kiss Land,' it's probably going to be the most terrifying thing you've ever seen in your life.
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My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway.
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I spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long it takes. I'm such a visual artist as well that it always goes hand-in-hand.
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The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.
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My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I'll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there's no pressure.
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'Thursday' is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.
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I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.
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Music is like film to me.
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I feel like I'm the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.
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When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.
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All of my music is honest.
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When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.
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My production and songwriting and the environment around those vocals are not inspired by R&B at all.
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I was everything an R&B singer wasn't. I wasn't in shape. I wasn't a pretty boy.
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I'm mainstream.
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I mean... in life... what relationship is easy?
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Marriage is scary to me, man.
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When people meet me, they say that I'm really kind - contrary to a lot of my music.
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I knew the second I finished the first record - 'House Of Balloons' - and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.