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I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I’m so excited because I always secretly wanted to be an artist.

Charlie Puth

I listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye and Motown records.
CHARLIE PUTH

Listening Music Myself Song
I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything.
CHARLIE PUTH

Music Myself Raise School Scripture
When my dad played me ‘Walking Man,’ I heard those chord changes and that melody, it completely blew me away. Maybe you wouldn’t really hear the James Taylor influences in my music, but they’re definitely buried in there.
CHARLIE PUTH

Complete Father Influence Man Music Player Walk
I started making remixes for every specific girl I wanted to date. That’s how I learned how to use Pro Tools, and then I started making my own music.
CHARLIE PUTH

Creation Date Learning Music Myself Start Woman
When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody.
CHARLIE PUTH

Feeling Himself Music Production Reach
My first date ever, I was kind of nervous, so I was like, ‘I’m going to bring Brady to this walk on the beach with this girl,’ and she was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I have a King Charles Cavalier, too.’ I’m like, ‘Money, perfect, amazing.’
CHARLIE PUTH

Date Kind Love Money Myself Nervous Perfection Relationship
When I get high anxiety, I vomit. My mom was so stressed out. Then I found out I was staying in John Mayer’s old dorm room, and I had a nice roommate. That completely brought me down. I was completely comfortable at Berklee.
CHARLIE PUTH

Anxiety Comfortable Complete Mom Myself Stay Stress
I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music during high school, like every Saturday. And then I went to Berklee for college, in Boston.
CHARLIE PUTH

Age Education Mom Myself Start Teaching Time
A lot of people don’t know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.
CHARLIE PUTH

Land People Unknown
One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That’s what I wished someone would’ve done for me.
CHARLIE PUTH

Artist Feature Goal Myself
I actually get a lot of messages with people saying, ‘What’s a Marvin Gaye?’ and, I mean… Oh, wow. I must be getting old, because someone who was born in 2004 just asked me what a Marvin Gaye was.
CHARLIE PUTH

Age Children Funny Message Myself Old Unknown
Shy Carter helped me write ‘One Call Away.’ He is a brand new artist. I really want to help jumpstart his career because I think he’s super-talented.
CHARLIE PUTH

Call Help Herself Music Song Talent Thinking Writing
When I wrote ‘Marvin Gaye,’ my whole intention was to make a record that people would put on a record player… and just instantly make out with each other.
CHARLIE PUTH

Each Other Intention Myself Player Writing
I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I’m so excited because I always secretly wanted to be an artist.
CHARLIE PUTH

Artist Myself Secret Song Writing
I didn’t grow up wealthy. We couldn’t even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.
CHARLIE PUTH

Born Father Growth Hard Work Mom Myself Wealth
I’m a homebody times ten.
CHARLIE PUTH

Body Home Myself

I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I’m so excited because I always secretly wanted to be an artist.

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