In all practical purposes there hasn't been an artist that has only broken online, there has always been some sort of other tie-in.

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What? You now have become the first recording artist I've ever sat across from who said, 'I wanted that album to sell fewer copies.' Why?

There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

I feel I was definitely robbed ... I was the best new artist this year. I don't know if I'll be back at this award show next year.

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.