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I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.
My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.
When you're happy you enjoy the music, but when you're sad you understand the lyrics.
I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer's block.
This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup
I'm in this business to be creative - I'll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.
I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.
It's not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.
The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.
The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.
Don't ever play with someone's feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.
I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important.
It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.
It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.
All in all, I just don't trust journalists - and I don't think it's a good practice for me to trust journalists.
Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.
If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.
When you write a song like 'Forrest Gump,' the subject can't be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.
As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.
I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.
With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.
When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should write.'
I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.
I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.
I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.
I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.
Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.
I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.
I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.
The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.
I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.
I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.
I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.
Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.
It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn't reaping the lion's share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story and all kinds of sonic goodness.
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.
I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function.
My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.
What do you think my brain is made for? Is it just a container for the mind? This great grey matter, Sensei replied what is your woman, Is she just a container for the child? That soft pink matter