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There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.

You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.

As an artist, you have to work really, really hard because you gotta make something that will allow people to even take the chance to even listen to it, you know?

I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.

I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.

There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.

One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'