Top 60 Syd Quotes

I sing every day, on a regular basis.

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.

Performing live was something that I had to really work at.

I think everybody goes through times where they’re vulnerable and then times where you’re confident and cocky.

I think I see a lot of artists struggling to make their first album perfect, and I’ve been there.

I feel like once you go with a band, it’s hard to go back. I just don’t see myself performing without a band.

Fashion has always been influenced by hip-hop.

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

Almost everything I’ve ever recorded, I recorded myself at the desk, in my house.

It kind of feels good to make something that you’re proud of and it’s also very real to you.

When I started making music, I just wanted to be the producer who sang the hooks. I wanted to be Pharrell, honestly, the one who made the beats and was in the music video with the girls.

Guitar Center hooks me up on a lot of stuff.

Some people just need something to be mad about.

I used to have long hair and get it done every two weeks, and it was never worth it to me. I would just walk out of the salon and put it in a ponytail anyway.

I think too many people are offended by stuff that doesn’t matter.

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

Finding someone that trusted my vision helped me find certainty in who I was.

I think the audience is getting it right, you know what I mean? And that’s kind of rare when the artist feels like their audience understand them. But I feel like people are understanding exactly what I’m going for. And that’s awesome.

I want to be a great performer.

I’ve written songs about women since I’ve been involved with women, but I do know a few gay female artists who, back in the day, would write songs about men.

I’ve always known I was a genius. But I never thought I was a star.

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

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.

As far as open conversations with random people, no I don’t really enjoy them.

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 remember my first albums: Brandy‘s first album and Usher’s ‘My Way.’

If you want to be a pioneer, you have to be intentional, at least a little bit.

I do want to inspire people – young girls who may like to wear boys’ clothes and who romanticize women and feel nothing wrong with it.

It’s weird: I don’t really know where I pull my inspiration from. I think it’s N.E.R.D.

As a child, I wanted to be a singer, but that was only because I thought I could sing. I’d sing along to Brandy and Usher and *NSYNC.

At some point, I started listening to music a little differently. Rather than being like, ‘Yo, this is dope – who made this?’ it started being like, ‘I wish I made this.’

I’ve always been conscious not to take advantage of my sexual orientation because I don’t think it’s fair, and it shouldn’t matter.

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.

I’m sure that, on some level of the major-label and old-establishment industry, there are execs and agents who think homosexuality is a liability.

For me, I’m just trying to keep it fun, keep it interesting, not get stuck on the same sound, the same wave for too long.

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.

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

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.

The gay community hated me for being part of Odd Future. They thought Odd Future was homophobic because they tend to use homophobic slang, and they were like: ‘How can you work for and support homophobes?’ But they aren’t homophobic; they just don’t really care whether you’re offended or not.

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

I used to get the most anxiety before shows because I really was never prepared.

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.

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.

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.

Don’t overthink it, and don’t let technicalities stop you from creating.

I was a loner; I spent the first half of high school alone.

I grew up watching ‘American Idol.’

I have an uncle in Jamaica who’s an OG producer/songwriter over there, Mikey Bennett.

If you think I’m a young boy singing these songs, dope. Run with that.

I’m not ashamed in the least bit of being gay or being a lesbian. I just prefer to call myself gay for some reason.

I have really dope parents, and they happen to both really love, love music – they’re huge music fans.

I grew up in a house that was constantly under construction. It’s been under construction my whole life. My mom loves interior decor, and my dad loves construction – he loves demolition and building new walls.

It’s no secret that I love women. I think everyone loves women. And I like having beautiful women around me.

Kaytranada’s a really cool dude.

If you ranked Odd Future, I was at the very bottom.

Most of my friends are straight dudes. I talk to them about girls. I don’t talk to girls about girls; I don’t talk to gay girls about girls.

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.

I’m never a flashy type of person.

My mom wasn’t expecting me to end up how I ended up. When she wanted to have kids, she wanted to have two girls, and then she got my brother and me. Which is a disappointment to anybody. You can’t help it.