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I'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else.
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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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The game is changing with songs like 'Earned It' as opposed to it changing me.
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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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I want to be remembered as iconic and different.
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OVOXO will always be there.
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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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The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you're in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life - you write about the mindset you're in at that moment.
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Image, lyrics, content, storytelling, cohesive body of work - that's Prince to me.
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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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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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I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.
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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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Going home helps the content.
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'Eastern Promises' is great.
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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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The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it.
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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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Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.
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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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From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That's why I'm such a city cat.
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Marriage is scary to me, man.
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When I was born, that was the music my mother was listening to. Michael Jackson is a third parent to me.
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Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.
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