“Going home helps the content.”
— The Weeknd
“For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It’s a piece that men wear every day, and it’s something that I would wear for any occasion, whether it’s on the street or going to an awards ceremony.”
— The Weeknd
“Marriage is scary to me, man.”
— The Weeknd
“The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don’t know his past you just know what his plans are.”
— The Weeknd
“I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.”
— The Weeknd
“Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.”
— The Weeknd
“I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.”
— The Weeknd
“Prince turned experimental music into pop music. ‘When Doves Cry,’ the whole ‘Purple Rain’ soundtrack – he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt ‘House of Balloons’ was.”
— The Weeknd
“For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.”
— The Weeknd
“Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again.”
— The Weeknd
“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.”
— The Weeknd