"Frank Ocean played a huge part; the first song that I’d heard by him was “Swim Good.” I used to also listen to Lil Wa…"

"I got exposed to a couple of studios, and I met a few producers and started seeing the process of music being made. I…"

"I love, love, love guitars and chords. I like things that are based on the instruments I originally learned—violin, f…"

"I used to write poems a lot – I’ll just sit down and write things I’m feeling, and it’ll come out so poetic, even if …"

"That sense of being an outcast continued into high school. “I just wasn’t popular; I cried a lot, I was very shy. I w…"

"I was very naive. I didn’t know that people lie, I didn’t know that people didn’t write their own songs. Music has al…"

"Music is my happy place. Music is the only thing that makes me feel truly at home. If I'm sad, it's the only thing I …"

"It was just very easy, it wasn't something I had to try for. So I understood music to be my thing and no matter what …"

"Freestyling, for me, feels like a release. A lot of things I feel, I can't explain, I just sing it. So it was one of …"

"It is about showing people they can be who they are truly, without the masks and pretenses. You are a human being, an…"