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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.

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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.

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