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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."
"That's our job as artists is to be honest about what we're feeling. And what we're feeling is not always going to be perfect. Sometimes it's going to be controversial. Sometimes it's going to piss a couple of people off. Sometimes it's going to motivate people. Sometimes it's going to inspire."
"Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that."
"Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression."
"I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though."
"Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go."
"A lot of my creative projects are inspired and driven by technology and style. My mission is to recycle as much plastic possible in my lifetime and beyond in the form of high quality products."
"Failure hurts pretty bad. But when you got good people around you they remind you that failure is actually just a lesson. It's how not to walk so you don't fall again."
"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."
"Usually as humans and especially as a man, we look at things in context. It's like, oh, I know what that is, that's this, or this, there's that."
"You sort of have to become what you're wearing."
"I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not."
"That's sort of what I try to do with music: to harness whatever energy is already there and see where that momentum takes me. Sometimes you're spinning that oncoming momentum in a different direction, or sometimes you're coercing it to consider itself, or sometimes you're holding it up to a mirror. But I don't really like to interrupt and come in and destroy everything and start all over. I'm not that kind of guy."
"I love making music, though. I love playing."
"Week before that, I was out in Italy Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me"
"You ain't heard that we swallow guys?"
"As much as we think we are as artists, we think, oh, you know, we're going to do this, we're going to do that, and really at the end of the day it's the fans that make that determination. Because if they don't buy it, stream it, share it or talk about it, then you're just a crazy person with an idea."
"There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about."
"I'm very lazy, it's just that I love music and I love the things that I get to do. That's why I feel so blessed."