Top 55 Syd Quotes

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

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 have stopped going out places just to avoid uncomfortable conversations.

Justin Timberlake has a great live show.

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

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.

Feeling invisible definitely makes you want to become visible sometimes.

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

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

Fashion has always been influenced by hip-hop.

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.’

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.

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.

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

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.

If I have a session with an artist who I’ve never worked with before, they don’t have to meet my parents, you know? Unless they want to.

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

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’ve always been comfortable with my gayness, but I was intimidated by the social anxiety.

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

Guitar Center hooks me up on a lot of stuff.

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.

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.

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

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

I learned everything I knew about recording and engineering from my experience with Odd Future, so I was pretty comfortable with not having much.

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 sing every day, on a regular basis.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

My parents have always been supportive of whatever I’ve wanted to do.

I’ve gotten used to not having all the responsibility on my shoulders.

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

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.

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 wish I could sing like Nelly.

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

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

I grew up watching ‘American Idol.’

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