The Weeknd Quotes

When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

I'm too full to swallow my pride

I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.

Be loyal to your own piece of mind.

I can never be Michael Jackson or do what he did, but he is definitely a good inspiration: I want to give the kids that feeling.

I'm the most boring person to talk to.

Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again.

Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it ... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

I make good music for long journeys.

'House of Balloons' was special because I had no deadlines, and nobody knew me, so there were no expectations. Spent a year making it perfect. Every song had at least, like, 7 different versions to them before picking the right one.

They asked me why I don't quit drinking, I told 'em I'm not a quitter.

Ain't nobody gonna care enough to catch you fall.

I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months

Some people are just born wack, you can't teach certain wackness.

happiness exists when u dont know a thing.

I feel like my singing is not conventional. I mean, if you look at technique, I'm not a technical singer.

I ain't scared of the fall / I've felt the ground before.