Everything Quotes

I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.

I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.'

I'm big on what's in good taste.

You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.

Of course awards matter.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there's always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

I don't intend to stop making music.

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

I'm not a centerfold.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn't reaping the lion's share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

I don't fear anybody... at all.

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.

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

I had writer's block for almost a year.

I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.

I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories.

I might just write a novel next. I don't know!

In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.

I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be challenged - to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn't an easy way, but it's a rewarding way.

I worked my face off.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

I can't usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it's new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it's about function.

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

You can't think; you just gotta do things.

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.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.

I'm about being the best.

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.

Here's what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

When you write a song like 'Forrest Gump,' the subject can't be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

It's not essential for me to have a big debut week; it's not essential for me to have big radio records.

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.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer's block.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake's important.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should write.'

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.