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“We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.”
“I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.”
“I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down.”
“Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?”
“Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.”
“I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.”
“Releasing an album on a major label is like sending a package through Fed Ex. You know that it'll get there, and you know that it'll get there on time.”
“My attention span is very short.”
“I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich.”
“Love lasts forever.”
“Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.”
“My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.”
“When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers.”
“The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.”
“You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.”
“We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.”
“Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.”
“I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas.”
“There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'”
“America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.”