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I'm a big fan of country music.
I take a lot of pride in my songs.
Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often.
I love the fact that I don't have a real job!
My team and I live by 3 words: RELATE. LOVE. INSPIRE
I'm kind of like a rapper trapped in a singer's body.
Detroit is in my music consciously and subconsciously.
Some of my early musical memories are attached to grunge.
I stay up too late pretty much every night working on music.
People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.
I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to.
I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood.
My favorite television show is 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.'
My smiles don't result from good things, they result in good things.
If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny.
I'll read on Twitter, 'Do you still do music?' Music is all I do, all day.
If you believe, work hard, and smile there's nothing you can't accomplish.
My focus is to try to appreciate the present moment more and more and more.
I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough.
I want to headline Bonnaroo. I just want to do it more than anything in the world.
I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it.
I think it should be socially acceptable for men to like 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt.
I know it sounds corny, but I look for a girl that has a beautiful personality on the inside.
I feel like people didn't understand where I was about to go. And a lot of people still don't.
Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an interview, I'm scared to say who they are.
I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label.
If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.
I try to listen to as much different music as possible - I've always got music blasting in my ears!
I co-produced 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth's album, so I've been keeping busy.
Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time.
I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.
It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics.
It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.
I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.
When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.
I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.
I didn't give myself enough love, so I was searching for it in other places, and it was a never ending struggle.
It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.
I'm scared to give gratitude to the people that, if I hadn't heard their stuff, I wouldn't be able to make music.
I realized I could do music for the sake of music, not the other things that come with it. That was a major shift.
What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around.
I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.
If they want to party and do all the things I say brought me sadness in my song, with my song as the soundtrack... so be it.
I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old.
When you know it's a game, you can have more fun playing it. When things seem serious, you tend to take less risk and have less fun.
I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars.
I came to realize that if I was going to succeed in the music industry, I was going to have to learn how to perform my songs myself.
My earliest musical memory is of my older sister playing me Nirvana's 'Nevermind' on headphones in the back of the car on a road trip.
A lot of my friends who I wrote or produced songs for came back and helped me make 'Pages.' It's better than I ever could have imagined.
I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing.