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“My parents took me to Sam Ash, and I got a pretty cheap setup - a MIDI keyboard and one of those cheaper mixers - but it was dope, though; it was something. That was kind of how it was: just going to school, skating back home, making music, telling my parents I did my homework.”

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I had always wanted to come to South by Southwest. It's really fun.

It's cool to see a bunch of brown kids in the crowd. I wanna be a brown artist that they look up to. I didn't see that many artists with my same culture that I looked up to when I was growing up. The industry has always been whitewashed.

I just always wanted to play guitar. I though that was, like, really dope. And then in high school, I learned how to play trumpet and, like, French horn because if the instrument's right in front of me, I'm going to just teach myself.

It's cool to be in your feelings, and it's cool to be sad, and it's cool to feel all of these things.

I would try to run when I was barely learning how to walk, so I would just fall.

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I was like a hermit; I didn't really have a lot of homies I would kick it with. I was in high school, I was failing all my classes, and I wanted to make music.

Love songs just kind of come out very naturally, me being a very romantic person.

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When I'm writing, I just kind of put myself in a place, in a certain time period in my life.

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