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" All of this music, It's definitely been the most freeing thing that I've ever done. "
Freeing
Ever
Done
" All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that. "
Music
Simple
Truth
" Any one thing can get in the way of you and your brain being comfortable and being inspired. It's the difference between a really big song and a song that never existed. "
Comfortable
You
Way
" At the end of the day, we all want to fall in love. "
Day
End
Love
" Being vulnerable is the hardest thing for so many people, including myself, but it's also the most satisfying thing. "
Myself
The Hardest Thing
People
" Ever since I visited Paris when I was younger, the sappy side of me really wanted to write a song about it someday. "
Me
Paris
Write
" Everybody in L.A. is a songwriter, producer, actor, creative. For some reason, you're supposed to go to a bar and all hang out and act like you like each other. There is a lot of fake stuff that goes on. "
You
Reason
Go
" For a lot of people going through their first love, you're both still figuring yourself out. "
Love
People
You
" For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic. "
Music
Reason
Whatever
" Growing up, I played in different bands and did a lot of self-booked touring and traveling around, and my sister was driving us on tour, and we're playing for nobody and literally begging my friends that I went to high school with to buy tickets to our shows. "
Growing Up
School
High School
" I am realising this now more as I grow up: that I never really felt connected to locations. In some sense, I always kind of felt a little lost in that I never had any hometown pride. While I experience a lot different places and experiences, I always felt a little detached. "
Experience
Hometown
I Am
" I could never write a proper party song. "
Song
Party
Never
" I do feel like I'm a little too much of a bummer sometimes. "
Sometimes
Little
Feel
" I feel like Drake could literally put out anything - like, the sound of seagulls over a beat - and it could be the Number One song on Spotify. "
Song
Sound
Over
" I just think that any person who wants music to be their career shouldn't focus on a record label. I have seen friends who sign to a label too early in their career, and they lost control over their music, and their releases were delayed or never put out. "
Friends
Music
Control
" I love bodies of work and albums and stuff like that. "
Albums
Work
Like
" I love exploring the more complicated side of love. I feel like I've always gravitated toward that. "
Love
Complicated
Feel
" I love nostalgia. "
I Love
Love
Nostalgia
" 'I Met You When I Was 18' is a collection of songs, a story about moving to New York City when I was 18 and falling in love for the first time. A story about trying to figure out your own identity whilst being deeply intertwined with someone else's. "
Love
New York
Time
" I miss the energy of New York City and being able to step out of my apartment and see so much unique culture all the time around me without having to seek it out. In L.A., I have to sort of seek out everything I'm trying to do. It makes it less spontaneous. "
City
New York
Step
" I'm super-into sappy movies like 'La La Land' and 'Midnight in Paris.' "
Like
Movies
Midnight
" I'm trying to basically just focus on sharing everything that I was feeling with other people, so I can hopefully inspire other people to free themselves. "
Free
People
Feeling
" In a way, the traditional album is no longer as important as it used to be. But at the same time, I don't want to be the kind of artist who just releases one song after another. "
Way
Time
Artist
" In day-to-day life, there's so much that's calculated: so many fake, surface-level interactions that don't amount to anything. "
Amount
Many
Much
" I put out my first song, 'The Other,' in 2015 just on Soundcloud. It was always my most popular song but never really went far in a mainstream way. Then, a couple years after it came out, I watched it go from 8 million to, like, 100 million. "
Way
Always
Go
" I really hope to give to other people who are listening to my music the same thing that it's done for me, which is make me feel more free and more accepting of myself. "
People
Myself
Music
" I sort of feel that I have to constantly be really, really honest with the way I feel, and I have to get that out. "
Feel
I Feel
Honest
" I think a lot of pop music is escapist. "
Lot
Pop Music
Music
" I think everybody goes through that, especially... being in love for the first time. Some people, they're lucky enough that that ends up being who they're with for the rest of their lives, and sometimes it doesn't work out. "
Think
Rest
People
" I think streaming, in general, is democratising music in general. "
Music
I Think
General
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