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	Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies.   
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	I don't like to have really any expectations for myself.   
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	I'm not interested in just putting out one hit.   
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	I have a pretty wide range of musical tastes.   
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	When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.   
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	When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.   
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	When I meet the right girl I'll definitely have no hesitations to a relationship.   
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	Winning 'American Idol' is awesome.   
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	I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.   
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	Working a job I love is mentally less stressful than punching in a clock everyday, but it's a lot busier.   
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	I know who I am as an artist. I've always known who I am as an artist.   
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	I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.   
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	Some people take pictures; I write songs.   
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	I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.   
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	I have goals that I want to reach, but you can never plan what's going to happen next.   
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	Bagel in the morning is the ultimate breakfast for me; they're just good.   
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	This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.   
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	I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.   
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	I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.   
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	If you've ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse.   
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	My music comes from my emotion, always.   
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	I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through my music.   
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	Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.   
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	I like blue a lot, and greens. Earthy blues and greens.   
