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When I'm in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.
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I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.
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I only entertain very close friends.
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You sort of have to become what you're wearing.
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Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
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The keyboard is my journal.
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My ideal travel companions are my family.
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I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.
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Fashion is more about feel than science.
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Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.
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Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.
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You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.
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I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.
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The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.
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I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.
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I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgment.
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The element of harmony is super important.
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My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark.
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I love making music, though. I love playing.
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So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.
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I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.
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Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.
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Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.
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The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.