The Weeknd Quotes
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Me not finishing school - in my head, I still have this insecurity when I'm talking to someone educated.
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I couldn't ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.
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I think that's why my career is going to be so long: Because I haven't given people everything.
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At one point, I didn't care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.
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I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.
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I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.'
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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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'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 be remembered as iconic and different.
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When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.
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Going to a therapist is not something you do when you're growing up as a street kid in Toronto.
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The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.
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Taylor Swift's audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
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My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.
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I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.
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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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I'm a studio rat.
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Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
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I'm the most boring person to talk to.
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All I do is make music.
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I want to produce the music to a movie that I'm working on, like what Prince did with 'Purple Rain.'
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When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.
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If you ever see young artists, and they're not sounding good, they sound good. They're good singers. They wouldn't be where they are if they didn't sound good. It's their nerves. Any time you see your favorite artist, and he's or she's screwing up or not hitting those notes, it's not because she can't hit it or she can't sing; he or she is scared.
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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.