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" I didn't feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso. "
Khalid
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" The thing about going back to El Paso, it's overwhelming sometimes. I look at the support that I get and the success that I've had, and I can't walk anywhere without being spotted. My hair might be the biggest crime in this situation. "
Khalid
Look
Hair
Back
" I just love matching sets. Tops and bottoms that are the same color are awesome to me, because you can get them in so many different colors - neon colors. "
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Me
Color
You
" If you don't text your relationship partner - even if you just saw them in person - it's like you're doing something wrong. "
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Partner
Doing
Relationship
" My high school was what crafted my interest in recording. "
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School
Interest
High School
" Art is fluid, and it travels. You have to let music take you where it wants to take you. You can't necessarily be the controller. "
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Where
You
Art
" Kendrick Lamar deserves a Grammy. He's one of the biggest, most influential rappers of my generation. "
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Biggest
Most
Generation
" I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my mind. "
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Thinking
Mind
Depression
" I was told I wasn't good enough, but I just chose not to listen. "
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Chose
Listen
Just
" It wasn't like I was specifically wanting to write songs about technology. It's just what I lived, what I was experiencing growing up. "
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Growing
Growing Up
Technology
" We forget that when you grow up, there are a lot of people who are in the same position as you. The reason we forget is because there's not really a true voice that talks from the perspective of youth. "
Khalid
Voice
Youth
People
" I'm a regular guy, and I don't want anyone to look at me as being superior or having a God complex or anything like that, you know? I don't want to walk around like I know everything, because I have so much more room to improve. "
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God
Walk
Me
" I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created. "
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Music
Life
Play
" I would never have been able to find my voice if I didn't have music education. "
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Never
Music
Voice
" My mom is my biggest inspiration by far. She inspires me on a daily basis. I remember hearing her sing around the house, and I was like, 'Mom, you belong on TV. You're a superstar.' "
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You
Daily
Me
" I've been singing since I could talk correctly. "
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Singing
Been
Since
" I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlete - who wasn't as masculine as other guys. "
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Man
Your
African-American
" To be recognized and accepted by my musical peers is truly an honor. "
Khalid
Recognized
Accepted
Honor
" I gotta spread all this love that I have for myself, I gotta spread it to everybody else, because my positivity is going to change at least one person's day a day, and that's all that matters to me. "
Khalid
Change
Person
Myself
" We were told not to turn our hobby into our job, but to turn our job into our hobby. As kids, we were told not to pursue our dreams! "
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Hobby
Dreams
Turn
" I feel like baggy pants are cool. "
Khalid
I Feel Like
Pants
Cool
" I wrote 'Saved' as a form of therapy to get over the fact that I had moved and lost so much of myself. "
Khalid
Myself
Therapy
Over
" Being timeless means you can listen to something when you're feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is abnormal. It sticks out. It can't be recreated. "
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You
Way
Time
" Love crosses all boundaries. "
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Love
Boundaries
Crosses
" I definitely associate songs with the places that I've been. "
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Songs
Places
Been
" The first songs I made brought me to the Grammys. I was a five-times nominated teenager off voice memos and songs that were clearly recorded off different mics. "
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Different
Songs
Off
" Combing your hair after a long time is terrible. "
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Time
Hair
Long
" I worked hard on making a body of work that takes people on a journey. It was never about making a certain type of song. It was simply about embracing real-life situations. "
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Song
Body
Journey
" You're not a real fan if you don't know how to say my name. "
Khalid
Say
Know
You
" I feel like we go through different stages of love. When you get a little bit older, love starts to feel different, but you see that love has always been there. "
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You
See
Feel
" I always try to keep my friends within my music. I always play them all of the songs, and they are my biggest critics, and they love it, so that's a good sign. "
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Music
Friends
Good