"I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70."
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"I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done."
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"If someone asks me what inspires me, I always say, "That which is missing," because I don't want to copy everything that's already happening. I feel like when you copy, you blend in, and when you blend in, you get lost."
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"Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing."
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"Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that."
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"Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures."
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"Be appreciative... that's what keeps me happy."
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"It's not what you're wearing, it's the way you wear it."
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"There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the people lift you to a certain height so that you could even be visible and get any kind of recognition."
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"I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up."
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"If you are not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. And discovering, I think, that's what separates us from the rest of the other species. It's that we discover and pioneer."
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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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"If you kiss a woman's mind, her body will follow."
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"The motivation for me, was them telling me what I could not be."
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"That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor."
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"Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift."
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"Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that."
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"We're going to start seeing that it's actually less about race and more about class in the future. As much as we complain about the establishment discriminating against black people, we're going to start seeing that more of us are already in the establishment."
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"Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results."
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"You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you"
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