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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.

I think we're finally in a culture now where being gay is normalized.

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.

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.

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.

My one experience with Lollapalooza was in 2009 - it was actually the first music festival I've ever been to.

I have always been very interested in thinking deeply about things. I do this a lot.

I loved playing the saxophone.

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

Everyone wants to grow, but I'm not trying to reinvent myself anytime soon.

I love looking out at a sea of people. It's mind-blowing. But I also like playing clubs.

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.

My parents took a fairly liberal approach at raising me, always encouraging me to be creative and free-thinking.

Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.

I don't need more money. I don't need that to be happy.

Being in the high-school band was some of the funnest years of my life.

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.

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.

If you make music with business in your head, it'll show. I make it from the heart. There's a difference.

There's no such thing as a bad Miyazaki film.