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I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family.
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I was really bored of making downtempo albums.
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When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, 'Go home!' Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can't do it quite as often. I've got gigs; I can't have my hobo beard! But if you love what you're doing, you can't stop. It's obsessive.
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That's why 'Chandelier' was interesting to me... I wrote the song because there's so many party-girl anthems in pop. And I thought it'd be interesting to do a different take on that.
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I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.
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I'm a hundred percent a rock n' roll guy.
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You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.
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Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background.
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When I write promotionally, I guess I give away the ones I'm less connected to.
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I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.
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I'm a musical geek. It's like there's this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it.
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I'm from Hackney, and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than somebody from uptown that has lots of money.
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I think that it would be unwise of us not to believe that there is life outside of us, intelligent life. And so I do believe in aliens.
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It's a lot easier producing for people or being in the background, and they can take all the fire from the front. But in order to express the ideas that I have without any kind of contamination, I thought it would be a cool thing to be out front.
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I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.
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I need to make money, but I don't want to be another guy selling his McDonald's to the pop market.
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I have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7.
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My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.
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I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters of certain energies, and we all create different colours.
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I'm trying to have some control over my image.
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Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree.
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I don't do sessions for myself ever. I'm always working, writing for pop sessions. And what happens is that sometimes I like a song so much, I keep it for myself.
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Sometimes, after I finish the lyrics and have all the melodies and harmonies and the pop and vocal, I'll be like, 'I have to keep it. I love it too much.'
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People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.