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• ‟ I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

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• ‟ It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

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• ‟ My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

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• ‟ A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

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• ‟ I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

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• ‟ Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever.

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• ‟ I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

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• ‟ I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

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• ‟ Everybody comments that I'm white. I'm surprised I haven't gotten more criticism for it. I'm always expecting any day now it's gonna come. I guess I just attribute the lack of hate to people hearing the music and hearing how much I genuinely love it.

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• ‟ Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense - that futuristic space style. It was out there.

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• ‟ I really don't care at all what people call me as long as they're listening to the music and talking about it. They can call me a space-jazz flautist. I don't care at all.

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• ‟ I'm a serious student of music, a perfectionist in the studio, and I take the arrangement and production of it very seriously, down to the mixing and mastering even. But at the same time I'm having so much fun with it. I try not to take myself so seriously.

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• ‟ I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

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• ‟ I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

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