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It is totally cool to be gay.
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Cool
Totally
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I loved playing the saxophone.
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Saxophone
Loved
Loved Playing
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I love hip-hop, and I like the beats the most.
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Beats
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I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.
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Therapy
Music Myself Feel
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I don't need more money. I don't need that to be happy.
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Be Happy
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It's all about the music. Everything else is just extra.
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Everything Else
Extra
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Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self.
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Self Acceptance
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My brother has been, and will always be, my closest friend.
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Brother
Closest
Friend
Closest Friend
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Zelda is the best solo game; Mario Cart is the best group game.
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Mario
Solo
Cart
Group
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We just love Denver. The love and support from people here is amazing.
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Denver
Love Amazing People
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I love playing live and creating these records that people are so into.
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Creating
Records
Love People Live
Love Live People
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Everyone wants to grow, but I'm not trying to reinvent myself anytime soon.
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Anytime
Reinvent
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I'm obsessed with the sound of today, but I was raised on the Motown sound.
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Motown
Raised
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When I was a kid, I was a really bad collaborator. I was pretty introverted.
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Introverted
Collaborator
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My vision is a blend of the old school and the new school, but with zero rules.
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Old School
Zero
School
Vision
Rules
Blend
Old
New Old School School
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I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot.
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Deeply
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I love looking out at a sea of people. It's mind-blowing. But I also like playing clubs.
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Clubs
Mind Blowing
Sea
Love Looking People
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I love what I do, and I do it 24/7, and it hurts my relationships very often, but it's worth it.
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Worth It
Hurts
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I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.
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Live Performance
Love Music Me
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You need to be able to communicate your feelings. We need to be able to do that to feel empowered.
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Communicate
Empowered
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Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.
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Proficiency
Instrument
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There is so much energy when you work with other people. I'm working with friends and having a blast.
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Blast
Work Energy People
So Much Energy
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My one experience with Lollapalooza was in 2009 - it was actually the first music festival I've ever been to.
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Festival
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I was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope.
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Family And Friends
Supportive
Surprised
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My parents took a fairly liberal approach at raising me, always encouraging me to be creative and free-thinking.
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Encouraging
Always Me Parents
Fairly
Me Parents Always
Liberal
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Stay in school and band, kids! It had its nerdy moments, and I always felt like I wanted to do something more with it.
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Band
Moments
Nerdy
School Always More
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My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that's important.
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Flow
Life Music My Life
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My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now.
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Electronic Music
Pop Music
Roots
Electronic
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Always focus on the music first. That's the big thing. Staying true to making good music and not sacrificing that for anything.
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Focus
Staying
Good Music Always
Good Music Focus
Big Thing
Good Music
Sacrificing
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There was so much pressure to fit in, I tried to force myself to be like everyone else. The last thing any teen wants is to be 'uncool.'
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Teen
Everyone Else
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I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines.
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Dizzy
Miles
Davis
Liked
Horn
Looked
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Computers are really patient. They can sit there all day. It's a totally different situation dealing with humans. They can be tired or overly excited.
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Computers
Humans
Patient
Tired
Totally
All Day
Dealing
Overly
Sit
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I think it would be super, hella cool to hop into a cab & hear my song on the radio - like, 'Yeah!' - and also be like, 'Who is this Griz guy? He's horrible.' That'd be really cool.
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Cab
Radio
Yeah
Hop
Super
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'Say It Loud' came from many, many small battles. From, 'I hate myself, and I hate this,' to, 'I love this, and it's my favorite thing...' to, 'This is the best thing in existence.'
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Loud
Love Best Myself
Battles
Favorite Thing
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The environment of San Francisco has so much history to it that I really appreciate. Musically, socially, and culturally. There's this new culture of people; it's a crazy place to be.
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Appreciate
Environment
San Francisco
Francisco
Musically
San
Socially
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I like mixing things up. That makes it more interesting. I love mixing in slower funk with what I do. I'll add drum and bass and put my foot to the gas pedal and press it to the floor.
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Add
Bass
Funk
Gas
Interesting
Mixing
Drum
Love More Things
Floor
Foot
Makes
Put
Pedal
Press
Slower
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There are always safe spaces. You can be a beacon for other people who are struggling. It's hard to put your heart out there and put it in other peoples' hands. But the receiving end is gentle.
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Gentle
Hands
Receiving
Safe
Always Heart Your
Beacon
Spaces
Struggling
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My whole thing, to keep myself interested - and, you know, I'm a huge hip-hop head - I have tons and tons of a cappellas. So I do these live remix mash-ups with my tracks and just throw them in there.
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Huge
Remix
Interested
Head
Throw
Tons
Tracks
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I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul records. They just, like, take a clip of that and rap over it because, you know, that was just kind of what was up.
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Clip
Funk
Huge
Over It
Records
Soul
Music Soul Hip-Hop
Fan
Huge Fan
Just Kind
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In this day and age, I really just don't want to sell people on something. I don't want to have to sell you sound. I don't like selling emotions. Or ideas. I just want to give you these ideas and inspire people.
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Inspire
Age Day People
Day And Age
Emotions
Sell
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I have a top 10 list of my favorite movies of all time, and just for the sake of not having my top 5 be entirely Miyazaki films, I had to pick one. So, right now, my favorite Miyazaki film is probably 'Princess Mononoke.'
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Princess
Sake
Entirely
Favorite Movies
List
Pick
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The most important thing, to me is the intention of where things come from, like, why did you use it? What were the intentions of what you did? And if the intention is good, the intention is pure, then everything will turn out good.
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Intention
Pure
Good Me Important
Most Important Thing
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I wanna take a step forward, and I also wanna make sure that step forward is the step that I want and that I'm not being pressured by life. You try and get better at doing something, and a lot of the time, it's because somebody told you that you needed to be better.
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Needed
Pressured
Life Time Better
Life Time Step
Sure
Wanna
Forward
Step
Step Forward
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For 'The Anthem,' a lot of my fans were like 'Oh, man, he's getting lazy making just, like, a pop format tune that everyone's doing these days.' But on this album, I wanted to write songs with vocals that would get stuck in my head, not just movements of instrumentals.
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Anthem
Fans
Format
Lazy
Stuck
Wanted
Album
Oh
Days
Getting
Head
Making
Movements
Tune
Vocals
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I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It had its limits. I play piano now and again in the new forms of music that I actually want to play, but at the time, it was something that I just kind of moved past.
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Limits
Moved
Forms
Classical
Just Kind
New Forms
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No matter what happens with EDM, I would like to go to New Orleans and just play with one of those small funk bands in an intimate venue. How cool would it be to work with a band with those huge horn lines and produce all of that great funk that makes you just want to party?
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Cool
Band
Funk
Happens
Huge
Intimate
Lines
New Orleans
Party
Produce
Work Great New
Cool Work Great
Horn
Orleans
Venue
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When you first start photographing a show or being into photography, you might think it's cool to see people with their phones, like, 'It's so novel; everyone cares about this moment so much,' but then it becomes... trite, y'know, and shallow. I think the best moments of my life have been spent without phones.
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Moments
Novel
Phones
Shallow
Life Cool Best
Becomes
Cares
Photographing
Spent
Trite
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