Quotes from GRiZ

I loved playing the saxophone.

For 'The Anthem,' a lot of my fans were like 'Oh, man, he's getting lazy making just, like, a pop format tune that everyone's doing these days.' But on this album, I wanted to write songs with vocals that would get stuck in my head, not just movements of instrumentals.

Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self.

I don't need more money. I don't need that to be happy.

I also think something that makes the whole live performance fun for me is that I love my music.

I never really had the chance to play the kind of music I wanted to play. It was always just classical. It had its limits. I play piano now and again in the new forms of music that I actually want to play, but at the time, it was something that I just kind of moved past.

I wanna take a step forward, and I also wanna make sure that step forward is the step that I want and that I'm not being pressured by life. You try and get better at doing something, and a lot of the time, it's because somebody told you that you needed to be better.

I was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope.

My brother has been, and will always be, my closest friend.

You need to be able to communicate your feelings. We need to be able to do that to feel empowered.

My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now.

We just love Denver. The love and support from people here is amazing.

I have a top 10 list of my favorite movies of all time, and just for the sake of not having my top 5 be entirely Miyazaki films, I had to pick one. So, right now, my favorite Miyazaki film is probably 'Princess Mononoke.'

It's all about the music. Everything else is just extra.

There was so much pressure to fit in, I tried to force myself to be like everyone else. The last thing any teen wants is to be 'uncool.'

Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on.

'Say It Loud' came from many, many small battles. From, 'I hate myself, and I hate this,' to, 'I love this, and it's my favorite thing...' to, 'This is the best thing in existence.'

My one experience with Lollapalooza was in 2009 - it was actually the first music festival I've ever been to.

The most important thing, to me is the intention of where things come from, like, why did you use it? What were the intentions of what you did? And if the intention is good, the intention is pure, then everything will turn out good.

My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that's important.

My parents took a fairly liberal approach at raising me, always encouraging me to be creative and free-thinking.

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul records. They just, like, take a clip of that and rap over it because, you know, that was just kind of what was up.

Everyone wants to grow, but I'm not trying to reinvent myself anytime soon.