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I don't think I could make a pop album.
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If you want to be famous, you can.
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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, 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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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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I'm not a children's songwriter. I'm not in that world.
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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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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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I wanted to go back to writing for myself and my fans. I built my own recording studio, started my own label, and decided to use the Internet to sell my records.
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You need a big team to support a career.
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Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion.
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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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I was scared of failure, of being a one-hit wonder, never being able to write another song again, never being able to sing again. Maybe everything that I think I am and who I want to be never will happen.
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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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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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I want to be a producer and not a songwriter.
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I didn't like being out in the limelight. I love performing, but that's it.
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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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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 love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different.
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There's a lot of artists that are celebrities, not really artists.