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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

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
The scar on my eye is a result of the doctor’s sewing up my face. It was 450 stitches and plastic surgery.
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Doctor Eyes Myself Result Scars
I’m always inspired by people who have really cool Twitter profiles.
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Inspirational Myself People Profile
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 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.’
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Body Experience Funny Myself Uncomfortable
It’s very easy for people to put out music.
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Easy Music People
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
A lot of people don’t know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.
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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 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
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. I’m an East Coaster – I’m from New Jersey, so I’ll probably feel like that forever.
CHARLIE PUTH

Forever Love Mental Motivational Myself
I listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye and Motown records.
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Listening Music Myself Song
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 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 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.
CHARLIE PUTH

Fun Love Mental Motivational Music Weather
When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody.
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Feeling Himself Music Production Reach

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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