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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

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 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.’
CHARLIE PUTH

Carry Friendship Myself Song Thinking Writing
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
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.
CHARLIE PUTH

Fact Flattery Myself People Sing Writing
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
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.
CHARLIE PUTH

Break Up End Myself Thankful Way Woman
It’s very easy for people to put out music.
CHARLIE PUTH

Easy Music People
I’m a homebody times ten.
CHARLIE PUTH

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.
CHARLIE PUTH

Act Audition Couple Oneself
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
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 didn’t start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.
CHARLIE PUTH

Afraid Age Myself People Sing Start Time
If a girl sings a sexy song, I actually become even more attracted to them.
CHARLIE PUTH

Attraction Couple Myself Relationship Song
A lot of people don’t know, but New Jersey has, like, 700,000 acres of farmland.
CHARLIE PUTH

Land People Unknown
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
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.
CHARLIE PUTH

Crazy Intention Myself Right Scars Thinking
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
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 listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye and Motown records.
CHARLIE PUTH

Listening Music Myself Song
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
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
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
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’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.
CHARLIE PUTH

Legal Myself Party Reason Way
I was bit by a dog when I was two years old, and it almost mauled my face. It almost killed and/or blinded me. I was this close to dying at two, which is terrible. I survived it, and there was no head trauma or anything like that. Honestly, it was a miracle.
CHARLIE PUTH

Dog Face Honesty Kill Miracle Myself Survive Time
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 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

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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