The Weeknd Quotes
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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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I'm a studio rat.
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The game is changing with songs like 'Earned It' as opposed to it changing me.
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OVOXO will always be there.
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I don't believe in icons.
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Going home helps the content.
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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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I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.
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I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it's such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it's therapeutic.
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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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I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.
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I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.
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The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it.
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I have a good team. It's good to have a good team.
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'Eastern Promises' is great.
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Bragging just sounds good, man.
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I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world - from religion to race.
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I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.
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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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I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.
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I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like 'Secrets' and 'Rockin',' almost like Toni Braxton. On 'Secrets,' I'm a different person.
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I just love Bowie. I think he's the ultimate inventor.
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When I was performing the songs on 'Kiss Land,' it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There's maybe two choruses on all of 'Kiss Land.'