There should be more love in Toronto when it comes to the music and entertainment scenes instead of keeping that Screwface Capital name. There should be more artists eating together, more artists celebrating together and more artists making music together. That's how I feel.
— PartyNextDoor
There's a difference wherever you go in Canada, Ontario and the GTA.
I'm going to make the music I make regardless and it's always going to be driven by rhythm and blues and hopefully it becomes popular. But I don't cater to, like, 'OK, I want to make music that's going to fit in this pop world or go on the charts, etcetera, etcetera.' Hopefully, enough people like it so it becomes popular.
I'll take a shot of vodka if I want it to be raspy... I tell whoever's in the studio to get boiling hot water, like super boiling, that they're afraid to give it to me. I put it exactly on the back of my tongue to shock my body. That cleans it up.
I don't know how to interact with fans, man.
Everyone should know yourself. It can be an insult, but know yourself is just it. It's exactly what it sounds like.
You know what matters? Touching people. Being a real person. Because when you're in front of real people, they gon' give you a real reaction.
When you get into the studio, you never know who is going to fit your energy.
Integrity is everything to me.
I would call myself the Pharrell of OVO. There are no rules for me.
I want to do as much as I can do while I'm young.
I think too much, which is a blessing and a curse.
I make 99 percent of my music sitting down, in boxers, when I'm comfortable in my computer chair.
The difference between what people perceive and what's reality is that, like, I'm not actually shy. I'm just observant. I care a lot.
When I'm home, I try to relax, but I still make music.
I look into people's eyes and I know they think I'm a bad guy.
My first tape was 'Hey, I can do what y'all do.' It's new, flashy, and not through rap. It was a guy singing how cool he was. I'm here with big bro Drake; I'm his little gunner.
There's room for everybody. It's like crabs in the bucket - no pun intended, shout-out to k-os - but there's a lot of room for different types of Canadian music, cadences and influences.
Halsey's so talented and her voice is so strong and it's so addicting.
I'm glad I'm with OVO; it's a dream come true.
I treat my vocals as an instrument.
I love music but I never went to a concert in my life. The first time I went to a concert I performed on a stage with Drake.
I know myself, I'm learning myself. I'm growing, I'm maturing.
I was like, 'Okay, cool, I'ma learn how to produce my own beats,' and I stuck to it. Now, it's hard to even take a beat from anyone else.
First time I met Drake was 2012 at a studio in Toronto.
In the beginning it was definitely Drake, Kanye and Lil Wayne - those were my influences. But having worked with all those three individually, I'm now appreciating my own individuality.
I think everyone has their roles, and in my opinion, I'm like the young hot boy of OVO: stubborn, very step-out-on-his-own and do-his-own-thing.
When I was younger I was influenced by Kanye, his story of coming up and how he kept producing and producing and saying, 'I'm more than just a producer. I'm more than just a writer. I'm more than just a guy in the studio here to give you ideas. I have a story.'
I'll make a whole bunch of beats whenever, but unless I'm living through something or have a female in mind, or have a conversation in my phone I could scroll through, I'm not making music.
I'm all about colors.
I take everything someone says and the way they say it to heart. I just notice everything. I'm very, like, I know what I want. I know what I want to do and what I don't want to do. It may seem like I'm care-free but I'm care-expensive.
I'm literally am home making my own music unless I'm asked to be in somebody's house writing music for them.
I thought, 'Write a hit, you'll be rich and happy.' Meet one of the most beautiful girls in the world, one of the most talented and I'll be happy. All of that: I'm not happy.
I'm looking for joy.
I was one of those guys who was, I guess, socially popular in school.
I made my entire first tape using Beats headphones - the studio headphones and halfway through the second one, because I finally started making a home studio. But I record and make all my beats with the Beats headphones.
I'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.
I want people to understand why I'm not 'P1' or 'P2.'
I'm not Drake's sidekick.
I'll flip samples where one's a completely dark song and the next one is a complete sexual song. People think my whole thing is a dark thing, but I don't.
I would like to say that OVO, me being on OVO, they kinda protect me from the industry, so I'm not around it. I'm not around it unless I choose to be, or unless I ask to be.
I'm a recording artist, a performing artist and a producing artist. All those things have everything to do with the outcome of my shows. I get myself studying every part of the game and not everyone has the characteristic to do that. In my mind, you need all three to become an artist.
I feel like my story could hopefully inspire others who've faced hard times.
I want to write just as much as Kanye may have for whomever Kanye has written for.
I competitively want to produce just as many records for Drake as Kanye West did for Jay Z.
I know how to use computers. I was one of those guys on Myspace who had one of those fake hit counters.
I would never call myself mysterious. The word I use is 'private.'
The best advice Drake's given anybody is to know yourself. It's the most important thing to live by.
I say it's easier to write for other people than write for myself.
My mother didn't listen to my first tape, or my second one.
