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" Every 16-year-old person has a love for pop in them because pop is popular. "

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" People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through. "

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" It's really exciting to see all those people that exist in numbers online translate into tickets and then into faces, handshakes, pictures, stories. "

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" If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently. "

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" I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me. "