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When I was a kid, I was a really bad collaborator. I was pretty introverted.

- GRiZ

Kid, Bad, Pretty, Introverted

I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines.

- GRiZ

Big, Always, Looked, Horn

My vision is a blend of the old school and the new school, but with zero rules.

- GRiZ

Vision, New, Zero, Old School

Computers are really patient. They can sit there all day. It's a totally different situation dealing with humans. They can be tired or overly excited.

- GRiZ

Tired, Excited, Dealing, Overly

Everyone wants to grow, but I'm not trying to reinvent myself anytime soon.

- GRiZ

Grow, Reinvent, Everyone, Anytime

My whole thing, to keep myself interested - and, you know, I'm a huge hip-hop head - I have tons and tons of a cappellas. So I do these live remix mash-ups with my tracks and just throw them in there.

- GRiZ

Myself, Them, Whole, Tons

Zelda is the best solo game; Mario Cart is the best group game.

- GRiZ

Best, Game, Solo, Mario

There are always safe spaces. You can be a beacon for other people who are struggling. It's hard to put your heart out there and put it in other peoples' hands. But the receiving end is gentle.

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Hands, Always, Other, Spaces

My brother has been, and will always be, my closest friend.

- GRiZ

Always, Been, Closest Friend, Closest

No matter what happens with EDM, I would like to go to New Orleans and just play with one of those small funk bands in an intimate venue. How cool would it be to work with a band with those huge horn lines and produce all of that great funk that makes you just want to party?

- GRiZ

Small, Play, Venue, New Orleans

My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that's important.

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My Life, Career, Going, Flow

Always focus on the music first. That's the big thing. Staying true to making good music and not sacrificing that for anything.

- GRiZ

Big, Always, Making, Sacrificing

I have a top 10 list of my favorite movies of all time, and just for the sake of not having my top 5 be entirely Miyazaki films, I had to pick one. So, right now, my favorite Miyazaki film is probably 'Princess Mononoke.'

- GRiZ

Movies, Top, Had, Favorite Movies

It's all about the music. Everything else is just extra.

- GRiZ

Music, Extra, Else, Everything Else

There is so much energy when you work with other people. I'm working with friends and having a blast.

- GRiZ

Work, Other, Having, Blast

My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now.

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Roots, Go, Seen, Electronic Music

I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It had its limits. I play piano now and again in the new forms of music that I actually want to play, but at the time, it was something that I just kind of moved past.

- GRiZ

Play, Moved, Classical, Forms

For 'The Anthem,' a lot of my fans were like 'Oh, man, he's getting lazy making just, like, a pop format tune that everyone's doing these days.' But on this album, I wanted to write songs with vocals that would get stuck in my head, not just movements of instrumentals.

- GRiZ

Lazy, Doing, Anthem, Vocals

'Say It Loud' came from many, many small battles. From, 'I hate myself, and I hate this,' to, 'I love this, and it's my favorite thing...' to, 'This is the best thing in existence.'

- GRiZ

Love, Small, Loud, Battles

You need to be able to communicate your feelings. We need to be able to do that to feel empowered.

- GRiZ

Communicate, Need, Able, Feelings

I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul records. They just, like, take a clip of that and rap over it because, you know, that was just kind of what was up.

- GRiZ

Soul, Over It, Records, Hip-Hop

I love hip-hop, and I like the beats the most.

- GRiZ

Love, Most, I Love, Hip-Hop

I like mixing things up. That makes it more interesting. I love mixing in slower funk with what I do. I'll add drum and bass and put my foot to the gas pedal and press it to the floor.

- GRiZ

Love, Add, Pedal, Slower

When you first start photographing a show or being into photography, you might think it's cool to see people with their phones, like, 'It's so novel; everyone cares about this moment so much,' but then it becomes... trite, y'know, and shallow. I think the best moments of my life have been spent without phones.

- GRiZ

My Life, Been, I Think, Novel

I was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope.

- GRiZ

Hope, Supportive, Still, Surprised

I wanna take a step forward, and I also wanna make sure that step forward is the step that I want and that I'm not being pressured by life. You try and get better at doing something, and a lot of the time, it's because somebody told you that you needed to be better.

- GRiZ

Life, Doing, Needed, Pressured

It is totally cool to be gay.

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Cool, Totally, Gay

I think we're finally in a culture now where being gay is normalized.

- GRiZ

Culture, Think, I Think, Gay

I think it would be super, hella cool to hop into a cab & hear my song on the radio - like, 'Yeah!' - and also be like, 'Who is this Griz guy? He's horrible.' That'd be really cool.

- GRiZ

Cab, I Think, Hop, Hear

In this day and age, I really just don't want to sell people on something. I don't want to have to sell you sound. I don't like selling emotions. Or ideas. I just want to give you these ideas and inspire people.

- GRiZ

Emotions, Give, Like, Day And Age

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