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" You're not a real fan if you don't know how to say my name. "
Khalid
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" With 'Location' and all the other songs around it, my music turned into therapy for others. And that's something I really love and am blown away by. "
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" 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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" I didn't feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso. "
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" 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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" 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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" I would classify myself as an individual. That's what I try to stay true with - being myself, 100 percent. "
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" 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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" It's crazy that people are looking to me as a symbol like, 'Oh, he's the voice of the youth. He's this and this and that.' I feel like there's a lot of pressure that comes with it, when people look to you as the face of something. "
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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. "
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" What really keeps me grounded is my fans and the way that I connect with them. "
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" I feel like baggy pants are cool. "
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" Uzi is insanely good and super creative. "
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" My mom raised a self-aware kid. I wasn't like the typical alpha male. I wasn't afraid to sing, you know? I wasn't afraid to be in musicals. "
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" I want to venture out into music education for kids. As a child, I was discouraged by a lack of money, and now I want to use my platform to give back to kids without resources. "
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" To be recognized and accepted by my musical peers is truly an honor. "
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" I've felt like an outcast most of my life, being in multiple high schools and being a military child. "
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" 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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" When I started writing, I said, 'I don't know how to do this. I don't know if it sounds good.' Coming from being an underdog or being told that something wasn't for you over and over repeatedly, it took a lot out of me. It took a lot of my self-confidence. "
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" I'd love to collaborate with Frank Ocean. He's one of my favorite artists of all time. "
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" My peers inspire me, especially being a newer artist. "
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" For me, love is endless, and love has no age limit. "
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" Lorde is awesome. She's amazing. She's so talented. We went on tour in Europe, and it was the greatest time of my life. "
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" 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. "
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" And even though I'm famous, I still go through things that young people go through. "
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" For me, when I grew up, I never really had an outlet when it came to my social surroundings. Even if I had a form of popularity, I felt like I was very limited. "
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" I moved from New York to El Paso in 2015, just before my senior year. I was super nervous. My mom, she's in the Army, and she got stationed at Fort Bliss. We packed everything up and drove all the way to El Paso. "
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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. "
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" Joel Little and I have this certain chemistry we have when we work together. "
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" I was very confused with where my life was heading, but I knew that whatever I did, music was going to be involved. "
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" 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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