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How Turning 30 Changed The Weeknd's Music And Life · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. It's no secret that the weekend was
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Speaker 1: pretty wild in his twenties, but he celebrated his thirtieth
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Speaker 1: birthday in February and simultaneously began a new, more mature
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Speaker 1: era musically with his latest album, After Hours, and it's
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Speaker 1: no coincidence the two coincided with each other, he tells Variety.
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Speaker 1: It all started with some self realizations, explaining, I'm growing
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Speaker 1: and older and wiser, and I'm going to have children eventually.
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Speaker 1: I've always been self destructive. I've never brought harm to others.
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Speaker 1: My problem was always hurting myself. But at thirty, I've
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Speaker 1: realized I'm genuinely happy. I have my family, my friends,
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Speaker 1: my company. I'm making the smartest music I've ever made,
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Speaker 1: and I feel like my career is just starting. This
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Speaker 1: is just the beginning of another phase, not just a chapter,
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Speaker 1: but my second decade. His latest Blinding Lights, is out now.
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Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood.