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" People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way. "
Tori Kelly
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" I was actually signed at a very young age - I was 12 - and one thing led to another, and I ended up in a mutual split from the label. But it was probably the best thing that could have ever happened, because I was able to kind of leave the industry side of it for a minute and focus on the independent side. "
Tori Kelly
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" One of the most important things to me as a songwriter is to make music that's young and fresh but also soulful and real. I want people to feel like they know me once they listen to my songs. "
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" 'American Idol' was fun; it was definitely an experience. I was 16 years old when I did it, and I was curious about how I would do on the show. "
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" Everything I write about either I have gone through or I know somebody has gone through, so it's very close to me, but sometimes it's about taking those feelings and exaggerating on them a little bit: being a bit more dramatic but still keeping them relatable. "
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Know
" I use this brand called Ouidad; they're great. Not Your Mother's is another one. Garnier Fructis. I use a bunch of stuff. Literally, I just throw a huge concoction of stuff in my hair after I get out of the shower, and then I diffuse it. "
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Great
Brand
Shower
" When I walked into the studio, the chorus of 'Nobody Love' was already set. For me, the challenge was to make it have depth. "
Tori Kelly
Depth
Challenge
Love
" I feel really comfortable when it's just me and a guitar. It's special and more vulnerable to strip it down. It can be scary, but it's also empowering. "
Tori Kelly
Feel
Down
Scary
" My style is understated because everything I wear, I want it to have an effortless feel to it. I always want to be comfortable in my clothes and feel like myself, but I like to usually throw in some edge in there somewhere, even just with a leather jacket. But overall, always gotta keep it classy! "
Tori Kelly
Feel
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" My fans were the ones who discovered me on YouTube. I don't ever want to forget that. "
Tori Kelly
Fans
YouTube
Who
" Why do we even use hashtags? It's just like a sub-thought. Who clicks on hashtags? Nobody. "
Tori Kelly
Why
Who
Just
" I think, for me, the goal was never really for my EPs to go mainstream. I think the intention of them was to create a little bit of buzz and to show my musicality because I wrote and produced the EPs myself. The goal was to experiment, with no rules. "
Tori Kelly
Myself
Create
Goal
" The first time I worked out I almost threw up. I did not feel good at all. My friend said, 'You have to get past the first month, you're going to feel so much better.' And she was right: After about 30 or 40 days, I saw changes. "
Tori Kelly
Friend
Past
Good
" I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter. "
Tori Kelly
Writing
Music
Doing
" I really like to rock it natural and let my hair go wild, but when I do style it, I slick all the hair over to one side with pins. It's either that or a messy bun. "
Tori Kelly
Style
Rock
Wild
" I think with my journey so far, it never felt like an overwhelming, overnight success story. I think that's good for me because I really got to take my time. "
Tori Kelly
Good
Journey
Time
" Gospel was the root of everything in my house, so there's a touch of that in everything that I do. If soul counts as a genre, I would also say that's the common thread throughout everything I do. There's rock and soul influence, too. The pop element comes at the very end and making the song catchy so people will remember it. "
Tori Kelly
Soul
End
Influence
" I've never seen myself as a pop singer. I grew up listening to gospel, soul and rock. My approach to pop is that, when I was doing my album, I wanted to have raw, genuine lyrics, but wanted it to be easy to process. "
Tori Kelly
Rock
Myself
Soul
" I really grew my own fan base. I started posting videos on YouTube with the help of my parents. "
Tori Kelly
Help
Fan
YouTube
" I'm a '90s kid, so I went into the entire album process wanting to incorporate little touches of that sound from hip-hop and R&B. Just enough to where you hear it subtly and then go, 'This kind of reminds me of that time.' "
Tori Kelly
You
Time
Hip-Hop
" I know Pentatonix. I knew them before they were even a group. "
Tori Kelly
Group
Even
Them
" I've always been a fan of a good skinny jean, which William Rast does so well. I can dress them up or down, and they feel good throughout a long day. "
Tori Kelly
Dress
Long
Good
" I think in 2016 I'm going to focus on performing a lot more and doing as many shows as I can. There's plans to tour more, and that's where my heart is - doing the live shows. "
Tori Kelly
Live
I Can
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" 'Funny' is really cool live. You break it down into an acoustic set, and sometimes I'll do that one unplugged and off the mic, depending on the venue. "
Tori Kelly
Down
Funny
Sometimes
" When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory! "
Tori Kelly
Wear
Hair
Stage
" My faith is a huge part of my life. I don't force it into my music, but it's in my experiences, so it comes through. People pick up on what they want to pick up on, but any way strangers connect to a song that I wrote is awesome. "
Tori Kelly
Life
Faith
People
" I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly. "
Tori Kelly
Parents
Time
Singing
" I would like to be somebody young people, young girls, can look up to. "
Tori Kelly
Look
Young People
Young
" My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing. "
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Competition
Like
Singing
" It'd be cool to do something with Coldplay, and Ryan Tedder's amazing. "
Tori Kelly
Cool
Something
Amazing
" All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I'm nominated for Best New Artist, it feels like a dream. "
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Life
Dream
New