PARTYNEXTDOOR

Integrity is everything to me.

I treat my vocals as an instrument.

First time I met Drake was 2012 at a studio in Toronto.

I'm not Drake's sidekick.

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 grateful that really pretty girls like my music, and social media just happens to like really pretty girls.

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.

I feel like my story could hopefully inspire others who've faced hard times.

When I'm home, I try to relax, but I still make music.

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.

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 would never call myself mysterious. The word I use is 'private.'

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 would call myself the Pharrell of OVO. There are no rules for me.

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'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 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 competitively want to produce just as many records for Drake as Kanye West did for Jay Z.

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'm huge on visuals. I love visuals.

I know how to use computers. I was one of those guys on Myspace who had one of those fake hit counters.

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.