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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

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’m always inspired by people who have really cool Twitter profiles.
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Inspirational Myself People Profile
Marvin Gaye is an inspiration to me. He was one of the first Motown musicians that my mom and dad introduced me to, and I always thought it would be a good idea if I was ever an artist, and now I am, to make a record called ‘Marvin Gaye.’
CHARLIE PUTH

Father Inspirational Introduction Mom Music Myself Record
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.
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Call Help Herself Music Song Talent Thinking Writing
I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, ‘I need to write a song for this guy, because he always told me I would have a No. 1 song.’
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Carry Friendship Myself Song Thinking Writing
I didn’t start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.
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Afraid Age Myself People Sing Start Time
I’m a homebody times ten.
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Body Home Myself
I’m down to act a little bit – go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.
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Act Audition Couple Oneself
I’ve always weaseled my way into Grammy parties to network and everything, but now I have a legitimate reason to be there – it’s so cool.
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Legal Myself Party Reason Way
I don’t love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone is around here. It motivates me to make fun music.
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Fun Love Mental Motivational Music Weather
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.
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Anxiety Comfortable Complete Mom Myself Stay Stress
Everyone’s gone through a breakup, and I’ve dated girls in the past where… I’ve never had a messy breakup, thankfully, but I’m never the one to end it. I’m always caught off guard as to why things ended because I guess I’m oblivious in a way.
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Break Up End Myself Thankful Way Woman
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.
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Each Other Intention Myself Player Writing
It’s very easy for people to put out music.
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Easy Music People
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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Artist Myself Secret Song Writing
The scar on my eye is a result of the doctor’s sewing up my face. It was 450 stitches and plastic surgery.
CHARLIE PUTH

Doctor Eyes Myself Result Scars
It’s crazy because I have a scar on my right eyebrow, but people who don’t know me very well think that I just intentionally shave that part of it.
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Crazy Intention Myself Right Scars Thinking
I would be a giraffe because I just want to experience what a sore throat and being a giraffe feels like. It would be really uncomfortable walking around in the Sahara and being like, ‘I really need, like, 15 lozenges for my giraffe body.’
CHARLIE PUTH

Body Experience Funny Myself Uncomfortable
I listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye and Motown records.
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Listening Music Myself Song
A lot of people don’t know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.
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Land People Unknown
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
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
The fact that people are actually shaving their eyebrows is very flattering. But it’s crazy that people are singing songs I wrote in my bedroom.
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Fact Flattery Myself People Sing 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 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.
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Age Children Funny Message Myself Old Unknown
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.
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Music Myself Raise School Scripture
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.
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Age Education Mom Myself Start Teaching Time

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.

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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.

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