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" 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. "

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" I've always hated the feeling of trying to be cool or trying to fit in. "

" I love exploring the more complicated side of love. I feel like I've always gravitated toward that. "

" It's tough to know what I'm going to write about. I never really know until it starts happening. "

" The thing about Sheeran is that he is an incredibly real artist and songwriter. He is not trying to be anybody else other than himself. "

" I've been through so many different phases, partly because I moved around so much. I never found my identity based on where I was from. It was always pick up and explore something else. "

" I think a lot of pop music is escapist. "

" I write a lot of sad songs! "

" 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. "

" Ever since I visited Paris when I was younger, the sappy side of me really wanted to write a song about it someday. "

" People come up to me with tattoos of my lyrics! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think streaming, in general, is democratising music in general. "

" I do feel like I'm a little too much of a bummer sometimes. "

" For a lot of people going through their first love, you're both still figuring yourself out. "

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" 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. "

" At the end of the day, we all want to fall in love. "

" 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. "

" Kids can tell if you're being genuine or not. "

" 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. "

" I'm super-into sappy movies like 'La La Land' and 'Midnight in Paris.' "

" I love bodies of work and albums and stuff like that. "

" Being vulnerable is the hardest thing for so many people, including myself, but it's also the most satisfying thing. "

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" I love nostalgia. "

" 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. "