Bazzi

“I'd like to produce something with Kanye. Like, my production plus his, I think he'd make something really cool.”

“I'm not a nervous guy, because I don't think too far ahead. Fear is just thinking about what's going to happen next, right? So if you're not thinking, you can't be scared of anything.”

“I think space and music go hand in hand in the sense that they give a little more mystery and magic to life.”

“I went to the studio, and I freestyled 'Beautiful' in, like, an hour and a half, and I threw it up, and people were like, 'This song's gonna change your life.'”

“'Beautiful' is a freestyle, actually. I actually made 'Beautiful' being like, 'I just want something to post on Instagram, like, I don't care, I'm just gonna throw something up today.'”

“I make songs that I genuinely enjoy and love, and just put them out kind of freely and carelessly.”

“Yeah, 'Mine' was inspired by a person, but it became much deeper than that. I obviously pulled lyrics... from stuff I was actually saying to this person and feeling about this person, but it was for people. I didn't want to make that song to impress that girl; I wanted to make that song to make people feel better.”

“It's truthful - every single song is an extension of me and a truthful piece of inspiration from my past or something I'm currently going through.”

“What motivates me is connecting with people and making everybody feel loved.”

“My sound is a mix between pop, hip-hop, and R&B. It's a good collaborative effort of all three.”

“I was the biggest class clown. I loved attention.”

“If you think you're something long enough, eventually, you just turn into it.”

“No one wants the picture-perfect song anymore. I'm trying to keep the beautiful qualities of pop - nostalgia, melodies, and the feeling that a beautiful pop song can give you - but make it real. It's not polished.”

“You can listen to 'Cosmic' and truly get to know me, which I think is special.”

“I'm obsessed with being able to dictate energy in a room.”

“I think the best thing is having a voice and being able to give people a different perspective and a different opinion and voice my emotions and how I feel. To be heard by people, it feels good.”

“'Mine' was interesting because it was about the way that someone made me feel so loved - so beautiful, so special, so accepted. I knew that it was deeper than just writing a song about that.”

“I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old.”

“A lot of my career is mental, and I just have so much perspective from being raised in a city like Detroit and being able to come and live the life that I do now. To see that broad of a spectrum is really helpful for relating to people and feeling them.”

“I've always had such a high level of respect for Taylor Swift because she writes all of her music.”