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

“Zelda is the best solo game; Mario Cart is the best group game.”

“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.”

“I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It had its limits. I play piano now and again in the new forms of music that I actually want to play, but at the time, it was something that I just kind of moved past.”

“It's all about the music. Everything else is just extra.”

“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.”

“My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that's important.”

“We just love Denver. The love and support from people here is amazing.”

“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 loved playing the saxophone.”

“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.”

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

“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 brother has been, and will always be, my closest friend.”

“Always focus on the music first. That's the big thing. Staying true to making good music and not sacrificing that for anything.”

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

“'Say It Loud' came from many, many small battles. From, 'I hate myself, and I hate this,' to, 'I love this, and it's my favorite thing...' to, 'This is the best thing in existence.'”

“I love hip-hop, and I like the beats the most.”

“I have a top 10 list of my favorite movies of all time, and just for the sake of not having my top 5 be entirely Miyazaki films, I had to pick one. So, right now, my favorite Miyazaki film is probably 'Princess Mononoke.'”

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