Loren Gray

“I've decided that I'm not going to filter as much of what I post, because what's the point?”

“School was kind of rough for me. People weren't always the nicest with what I was doing.”

“Sublime is one of my favorite bands; I've been listening to them my whole life.”

“I wasn't aware of social media fame, it was more just making videos with my friends.”

“Last year I was 16, it was my first round of releasing music. Since then I've been working more on having an identity as an artist and really figuring out what it is that I want to talk about and how I want to sound.”

“My favorite aspect of music is the performance part!”

“I write a lot of my own music. I usually go in with a producer, and every now and then there will be another writer in the room.”

“I realized early on that my fans are pretty young. 'My Story' is quite a young song and I think it's a good introduction because I have something to grow from.”

“I just kind of talk about what's happening in my life and it's kind of like a therapy session. Usually something good comes out of that. Or sometimes other writers will come to me with ideas and then I'll put my own spin on it. It's usually really collaborative and open and it's very therapeutic for me as well.”

“I wasn't a big Air Force 1 person until I started buying custom ones.”

“I'm not a big celebration person, I don't need a big party. I just want to hang.”

“A lot of people think that my last name is Gray. My middle name is Gray, and my last name is Beech.”

“I definitely look up to Troye Sivan and Shawn Mendes as people that have successfully made the jump into the music world. I think it's incredible that they have been able to do that because it's not easy.”

“It was not a difficult decision to leave school, it was really easy.”

“I'm super blonde naturally, so, like, I don't have any eyebrows! I don't have any eyelashes!”

“I always have a ring light with me.”

“I want my fans to be able to approach me in public and not think that I'm some robot who only exists online.”

“I always pull from something I know really well. Because I would never want to write about something that I hadn't experienced or that I hadn't witnessed happen to somebody else because it wouldn't be genuine.”

“But the more that people got to know me and my personality, the more I connected with my fans and made friends, and people got to see more of my life.”

“That's the mindset I'm in, is do what I can do, do what I can control, and stay productive. I feel like it can get depressing really fast, being home and not having anything to do. I think being productive is important.”