Tate McRae

“Dancing used to be my one and only thing and then I started getting into poetry and writing stories and then music just ended up taking over my life and it's been amazing.”

“It felt like dancing was my only way of expressing myself until I got into writing, and then I realized that there were two sides of my brain that I needed to work all the time.”

“I go through regular problems. It's funny - there's still two sides to me: the normal one and the work one. I feel like I'm pulling a Hannah Montana.”

“I really want to start pushing my merchandise. I want to design something clothing-wise one day. I think that would be really sick.”

“I like to try to analyse structures of different albums and see what kind mine might be similar to.”

“With writing, I felt like it was just my free place where no one told me what to do because it was just my own.”

“My idea of my music is constantly changing so I feel like how other people react to my old songs just ends up putting more pressure on myself from my own perspective.”

“I have some big dreams. I really want my work to be worldwide and for a lot of people to hear it, just because I have a lot to say.”

“You know those little talking relationships that never go anywhere on Snapchat? Those are the worst. You dedicate so much time and energy to one person just to find out that they're talking to 50 other girls at the same time.”

“When I was 13, I started posting songs every week that I'd written. They weren't fantastic, but people connected to them in some way. And that's the only way that I grow my audience as a writer.”

“I'm still dancing - my mum owns a dance company - but I felt like there was more freedom in the music industry. You can take your vision and really bring it to life no matter what, because it's just you.”

“Since I danced really intensely, singing was more just something that I enjoyed.”

“Yeah, I started on YouTube. I posted videos every Friday and wrote new songs every week. Back then, I was in a very vulnerable place with all my fans. Now in a pandemic, it feels like I'm going back to my roots and playing on my OG piano that I played when I first started.”

“I'll be a wreck for the simplest things in life, and just not affected by cool things.”

“I love Christmas. It is my favorite holiday of the year. I love being somewhere cold at Christmas so that there is snow.”

“I traveled so much as a child. When I was four, we moved to the Oman in the Middle East. We lived there for three years and I got to explore Oman, as well as many places around there.”

“I have this thing in my brain that I just wish I lived in a different time era. And I think that's honestly just because of social media and everything, like phones and the whole shebang. I feel like relationships are more superficial.”

“New York City is so big with all the lights and the people and it just makes me feel like I'm living in a dream when I'm there.”

“As a dancer, when you're moving, you're listening to music so much because you're trying to portray it with your body. You're dissecting a song way more than anyone would actually think you are.”

“I always say The Weeknd and Post Malone are two huge dream collaborations. Ariana Grande would be cool.”