1. “Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”
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2. “Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.”
3. “Those who are heartless, once cared too much.”
4. “Never run back to what broke you.”
5. “I’ve been thinking about forever”
6. “If it brings me to my knees, it’s a bad religion”
7. “Don’t confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.”
8. “When you’re happy, you enjoy the music but when you’re sad, you understand the lyrics.”
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9. “I’m extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn’t project that all the time”
10. “It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.”
11. “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”
12. “I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.”
13. “Go for someone who is proud to have you.”
14. “I’ve gotten used to being Frank Ocean.”
15. “I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go to form of communication”
16. “It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.”
17. “Smile, it’s easier than explaining why you’re sad.”
18. “When you write a song like ‘Forrest Gump,’ the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.”
19. “It’s not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.”
20. “Distance sometimes lets you know who’s worth keeping and who’s worth letting go.”
21. “Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.”
22. “The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.”
23. “I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.”
24. “I don’t know anything and neither do you”
25. “The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.”
26. “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.”
27. “My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.”
28. “I play piano every day. I enjoy that.”
29. “Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.”
30. “Don’t ever play with someone’s feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.”
31. “The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.”
32. “I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.”
33. “I don’t know if I ever told you this before, but you’re the only one I ever waited for this long.”
34. “Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.”
35. “I’m about being the best.”
36. “This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.”
37. “I don’t intend to stop making music.”
38. “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.”
39. “You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.”
40. “I might just write a novel next. I don’t know!”
41. “I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and woman; but between love and love.”
42. “It’s a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.”
43. “Because I’m not in a record deal, I don’t have to operate in an album format.”
44. “There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.”
45. “Here’s what I think about music and journalism; The most important thing is to just press play.”
46. “As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.”
47. “With my art, it’s the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.”
48. “I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.”
49. “I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.”
50. “A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past life.”
51. “Each individual’s success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.”
52. “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.”
53. “I guess I’m just inspired to tell stories.”
54. “I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.”
55. “People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.”
56. “I worked my face off.”
57. “I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.”
58. “You can’t think. You just have to do things.”
59. “I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.”
60. “I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.”
61. “The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.”
62. “As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.”
