“I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot...” — The Weeknd Quote

“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.”

“You aren't normal if you sing to people. You aren't a normal person. It's nerve-racking.”

“'Thursday' is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.”

“Women are really complex and totally enigmatic. Humans are really complex, but in film, we've only ever seen that with men. We've seen antiheroes time and again with male characters.”

“The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it.”

“I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.”