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" 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. "

Khalid

God

Walk

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Khalid

Even

Never

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Crazy

Youth

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Feel

Until

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Khalid

Loneliness

Mind

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