Top 95 Quotes & Sayings by Syd - Page 2

I want to be a great performer.

I love being part of a creative process, so having a band to work with is perfect for me.

Everybody in Odd Future is their own artist - they have their own friends and their own ideas for things - so we all spent quite a lot of time separated.

I don't really watch too many movies, but I try to watch inspirational pieces about other musicians. Musical documentaries truly inspire me.

Once we got signed, I moved out of my house because I was having teenage issues with my mom. It really wasn't my fault, looking back. You know, I'm gay; it's weird. It was one of the things. She has no problem with me being gay, but she had a problem with me dressing the way I do at first.

I lived in a pretty big house, and we had a guesthouse, so when I was 14, I built a studio in my bedroom, which was pretty big. It was two rooms connected, so I turned the second into a studio and ran the mic in my closet.

I think I'm influenced a lot by Drake in specific ways in my writing.

It took me a very long time to be comfortable in my own skin.

I was 16 when I recorded 'Flashlight.' I produced it, made the beat, wrote it, recorded it.

I've realised that I actually like being by myself.

I go through stages with all kinds of stuff. There'll be a couple of months where I'm reading, you know, like, fiction mystery novels, and there'll be a couple more where I'll be redecorating a room in my house.

When I was 14 and I wanted to buy stuff, I didn't like asking for stuff from my parents, so I started a couple companies, and the last one ended up being my studio.

I wish I could sing like Nelly.

I started taking vocal lessons steadily. I started taking it seriously.

I used to feel like I wasn't a good songwriter when I couldn't finish a song by myself.

I don't even start singing anything until the mic is on and recording, because my first ideas are usually my best ones. So I'll just press record; I'll freestyle a whole three minutes.

I never think I work hard enough, as much things I have on my plate.

I, for one, am, like, the most ordinary person. Like, people look past me all the time because I'm just so blending in.

I grew up watching 'American Idol.'

Kaytranada's a really cool dude.

I know that Shia LaBeouf and Fiona Apple went to my alma mater, Hamilton High.

I want to say I hate my generation, but I don't.

My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.

I think my first client other than my brother was this kid named Tallent. I was charging him eight dollars an hour to record in my room. He kept coming back, then I went up to ten dollars an hour.

Justin Timberlake has a great live show.

Studying James Fauntleroy, I learned it's okay to write a bad song. Just write another one the next day and hope that it's better.

For Odd Future, I only made beats for Mike G. With the Internet, I'm part of a production team making tracks for me to sing over.

I use Logic or Reason and a midi keyboard for beats. If it's gonna have all live instruments in it, I'll probably use Pro Tools and have the band lay stuff down.

I think that's what I learned a lot from Odd Future. I learned a lot of great things from them, but one of the mistakes that they made was that we didn't stay together, and we didn't communicate. We never had meetings. Everybody had issues with everybody else and wouldn't talk about it.

At the end of the day, I represent myself first and foremost, and I'm not going to ever purposely try and misrepresent myself.

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.

My dad makes me breakfast every morning; he's very worried about my nutrition.

I like that I'm an engineer - it sets me apart from a lot of other artists.

I was really inspired, working with Odd Future.

Guitar Center hooks me up on a lot of stuff.