My dad makes me breakfast every morning; he's very worried about my nutrition.Collection: Dad
My dad's a businessman, and I grew up looking up to him, how he dressed to go to work and, whenever I went to his office, how he spoke to people.Collection: Dad
I don't really watch too many movies, but I try to watch inspirational pieces about other musicians. Musical documentaries truly inspire me.Collection: Inspirational
Older people generally appreciate live music.
If you want to be a pioneer, you have to be intentional, at least a little bit.
I have stopped going out places just to avoid uncomfortable conversations.
Feeling invisible definitely makes you want to become visible sometimes.
I think I see myself differently than most people see me.
I get kinda nervous before every show.
I sing every day, on a regular basis.
I'm just a really shy person. I don't gravitate towards attention, so for someone like me to have as much attention as I have is bizarre.
I've always known I was a genius. But I never thought I was a star.
If you ranked Odd Future, I was at the very bottom.
I do want to inspire people - young girls who may like to wear boys' clothes and who romanticize women and feel nothing wrong with it.
I've always been comfortable with my gayness, but I was intimidated by the social anxiety.
It's weird: I don't really know where I pull my inspiration from. I think it's N.E.R.D.
I think I see a lot of artists struggling to make their first album perfect, and I've been there.
My parents have always been supportive of whatever I've wanted to do.
I have really dope parents, and they happen to both really love, love music - they're huge music fans.
If I have a session with an artist who I've never worked with before, they don't have to meet my parents, you know? Unless they want to.
Fashion has always been influenced by hip-hop.
I'm never a flashy type of person.
I grew up in a house that was constantly under construction. It's been under construction my whole life. My mom loves interior decor, and my dad loves construction - he loves demolition and building new walls.
I used to get the most anxiety before shows because I really was never prepared.
Performing live was something that I had to really work at.
I knew that if I just came out as a singer, people would just be criticizing my voice.
I hate the word 'lesbian.'
I used to have long hair and get it done every two weeks, and it was never worth it to me. I would just walk out of the salon and put it in a ponytail anyway.
I was a loner; I spent the first half of high school alone.
My mom wasn't expecting me to end up how I ended up. When she wanted to have kids, she wanted to have two girls, and then she got my brother and me. Which is a disappointment to anybody. You can't help it.
I'm sure that, on some level of the major-label and old-establishment industry, there are execs and agents who think homosexuality is a liability.
If you think I'm a young boy singing these songs, dope. Run with that.
The gay community hated me for being part of Odd Future. They thought Odd Future was homophobic because they tend to use homophobic slang, and they were like: 'How can you work for and support homophobes?' But they aren't homophobic; they just don't really care whether you're offended or not.
At some point, I started listening to music a little differently. Rather than being like, 'Yo, this is dope - who made this?' it started being like, 'I wish I made this.'
Finding someone that trusted my vision helped me find certainty in who I was.
Most of my friends are straight dudes. I talk to them about girls. I don't talk to girls about girls; I don't talk to gay girls about girls.
It's no secret that I love women. I think everyone loves women. And I like having beautiful women around me.
I have an uncle in Jamaica who's an OG producer/songwriter over there, Mikey Bennett.
When I started making music, I just wanted to be the producer who sang the hooks. I wanted to be Pharrell, honestly, the one who made the beats and was in the music video with the girls.
I want people to love me for my music.
If everything happens for a reason, what's the reason?
As a child, I wanted to be a singer, but that was only because I thought I could sing. I'd sing along to Brandy and Usher and *NSYNC.
Some people just need something to be mad about.
Almost everything I've ever recorded, I recorded myself at the desk, in my house.
Don't overthink it, and don't let technicalities stop you from creating.
I learned everything I knew about recording and engineering from my experience with Odd Future, so I was pretty comfortable with not having much.
It was a nerve-wracking first few years having to tour and perform in front of people with the little bit of confidence I had.
I've gotten used to not having all the responsibility on my shoulders.
I feel like once you go with a band, it's hard to go back. I just don't see myself performing without a band.
I think the audience is getting it right, you know what I mean? And that's kind of rare when the artist feels like their audience understand them. But I feel like people are understanding exactly what I'm going for. And that's awesome.