Borns

“When I wrote 'Dopamine,' I was so enamored by Los Angeles and finally making music I was really excited about.”

“A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not.”

“I really like Colin Blunstone, the lead singer of the Zombies.”

“I remember seeing an interview from the Bee Gees and they were like, 'The biggest competition to the Bee Gees is the Bee Gees.' They just kept trying to top themselves and write better songs, and I'm just always trying to do that.”

“I grew up a huge Roy Orbison fan. He had such a crazy range. And I grew up listening to old jazz, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone. I remember trying to imitate female jazz singers because I had a higher range.”

“We're always trying to make advancements in the arts and technology, so it's somewhat inevitable that we're going to make holograms of people.”

“I love learning how people hear my music because everyone has different references.”

“A lot of people hear things on the radio and try to make their own version of that.”

“I feel like I'm always just trying to write better music and keep topping myself.”

“My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child's mind.”

“My vocal influences are a lot of jazz singers: Billie Holiday, Julie London, they had this tenderness to their voice.”

“I don't want to make a living. I want to make a life.”

“I had a band when I was in middle school, but I was the drummer. I kind of thought if I was going to be in a band, I'd be the drummer. I'm innately drawn to rhythm. But we didn't have any shows. We just jammed in our parents' basement.”

“Hopefully I inspire people just to lose themselves a little bit. That's what I enjoy doing on stage: challenging myself with a new territory, like performing differently, moving differently, singing differently, just let people know that it's okay just to do something that they've never done before.”

“To make a genuine record, it takes more than a cool beat and some auto tune.”

“I find inspiration from a lot of different texts and really old stories and folk tales - things I feel like no one else is reading.”

“I always like surprising people and doing things at a young age and, I don't know, trying to do them at a higher caliber than what you'd normally think. I'm not saying I'm a virtuoso, but I always challenge myself.”

“I don't really know what emotions are going to come out in songs when I'm writing them until I step back and listen to them as a whole.”

“I never pictured myself as a professional musician.”