Khalid

“Falling in love in high school and falling out of love - it's very digital. I've had breakups where they've called me to tell me we were done, and I've gotten a lot of text messages from an old girlfriend letting me know how she felt about me after we had ended everything.”

“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.”

“Combing your hair after a long time is terrible.”

“Uzi is insanely good and super creative.”

“For me, love is endless, and love has no age limit.”

“As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to touch people for years to come.”

“I always try to be nice. I never want to be that person that anyone perceives as being rude or disrespectful, 'cause that's not me at all.”

“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.”

“I use my clothing choices as a way to express how I feel.”

“A lot of people feel pressured by the outside influences, whether it's your job, whether it's school. But who says you can't take care of that stuff and still be young?”

“Love crosses all boundaries.”

“I didn't feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso.”

“My mind was so geared towards being a performing artist, singing all these classical pieces, but the sense of loneliness I got when I moved from New York to El Paso meant that writing turned into singing. I'd sing all these songs, and they'd make me feel better. Songs that crafted the way my life was going to go.”

“Even though I wasn't born or raised in El Paso, it'll always be a part of me until the day that I die.”

“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.”

“I love visiting my friends because it makes me feel normal.”

“I got joked on. You had people saying I was stupid, that I was lame, that I was feminine, this and that. I was like, 'OK, but I'm still gonna be successful, and you're not.'”

“I would never have been able to find my voice if I didn't have music education.”

“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.”

“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.”