Daniel Caesar

Female energy is very comforting and beautiful. ”

My goal is to not fit in. My worst nightmare is being the baby version of another artist. ”

These days, it's more like me coming from playing a show and feeling the high from all the energies directed at me, to feeling a bit weird when I go home to the place where people know me from before all that. ”

We had some Stevie Wonder and Luther Vandross, but there’s a lot of hip-hop and other black music that I just never grew up on. My parents didn’t listen to anything other than black gospel." ”

My mom would say I’m a good kid… but I put them through a lot. I was rejecting religion and, not permanently, also kind of rejecting the things that they’d taught me, and just trying to think for myself." ”

Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that. ”

A lot of artists are aspiring to fill an archetype as opposed to being themselves. Even if they can’t quite put their finger on it, fans can tell." ”

Love songs are kind of like hymns if you think about it. Gospel songs are basically songs of adoration about God, or whatever you want to call Him. ”

Before I moved to the city I spent every Saturday sitting in church wishing I could be living on my own, doing what I wanted. ”

Being from Canada, we’re in a unique position to fund the music and then, because we own the masters, reinvest the profits,” he explains. “I live still very modestly and I spend a lot of time living at my managers’ houses. We all believed in it, but I’ve had a lot of help." ”