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" There was so much pressure to fit in, I tried to force myself to be like everyone else. The last thing any teen wants is to be 'uncool.' "

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" Piano was my first instrument, but it wasn't the instrument that I showed the most proficiency on. "

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" My life is my music, so how can I stop? I put 100 percent into my career. I keep this flow going, and that's important. "

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" I was a huge fan of '90s hip-hop, and a lot of what they got their music from was funk and soul records. They just, like, take a clip of that and rap over it because, you know, that was just kind of what was up. "

" I just really liked those trumpets and horns - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie - and I honed in on that. I always looked for those big horn lines. "

" I wanna take a step forward, and I also wanna make sure that step forward is the step that I want and that I'm not being pressured by life. You try and get better at doing something, and a lot of the time, it's because somebody told you that you needed to be better. "

" Stay in school and band, kids! It had its nerdy moments, and I always felt like I wanted to do something more with it. "

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