I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.

There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.

Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.

Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find out that you're not because you're not really hurting. But when it's real love, then it's gonna hurt. It's supposed to hurt because it's real.

The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.

The one thing about The Weeknd is that he's gone between the world of trap music and pop music and blended them together, so it makes it interesting in that way. That's what I like about him.