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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
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Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn't seem like something I was talented enough to do full time. So I kind of buried that dream.
Rachel Platten
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Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.
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My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'
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I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.
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I'm one of those people at the airport holding a pillow like a little kid.
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I can beatbox. Well, sort of. I have one beat that I can do, but people get fooled.
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I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.
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I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.
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I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
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It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!
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I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.
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I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.
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There's this misconception in the industry that you might have to go a little lighter or skate on the surface in order to reach people - and then in your second album, you get to tell who you are.
Rachel Platten
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If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
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There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.
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No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.
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Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.
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I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.
Rachel Platten