So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

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