Khalid Quotes
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I can't play an instrument to save my life. But when I'm creating, and when I'm making music, I feel like I'm the head of the orchestra, and I'm just waving my wand, and something is created.
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I would classify myself as an individual. That's what I try to stay true with - being myself, 100 percent.
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Uzi is insanely good and super creative.
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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.
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I had originally planned to do musical theatre and be on Broadway, but then my love for poetry also set in. Once that happened, I became torn between a career as an English teacher or a music teacher.
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Being vulnerable was difficult for me at first because I've said things in my songs about how I felt that I never told anybody.
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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.
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My high school was what crafted my interest in recording.
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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.
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El Paso is where I started. I don't feel like I'd be making the music I'm making now if I hadn't gone there.
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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.
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I want to venture out into music education for kids. As a child, I was discouraged by a lack of money, and now I want to use my platform to give back to kids without resources.
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I'm a regular guy, and I don't want anyone to look at me as being superior or having a God complex or anything like that, you know? I don't want to walk around like I know everything, because I have so much more room to improve.
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It's my job to accept my youth, to spread my story, to let people know who I am as an individual, because there's so many people who are blinded and think less of me because of my skin color.
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I moved from New York to El Paso in 2015, just before my senior year. I was super nervous. My mom, she's in the Army, and she got stationed at Fort Bliss. We packed everything up and drove all the way to El Paso.
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I worked hard on making a body of work that takes people on a journey. It was never about making a certain type of song. It was simply about embracing real-life situations.
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I'm still proud of who I am, of my youth, and I feel like now, as individuals, we begin to realise that we can change the future. We all have to participate.
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I was very confused with where my life was heading, but I knew that whatever I did, music was going to be involved.
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My mom is my biggest inspiration by far. She inspires me on a daily basis. I remember hearing her sing around the house, and I was like, 'Mom, you belong on TV. You're a superstar.'
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Lorde is awesome. She's amazing. She's so talented. We went on tour in Europe, and it was the greatest time of my life.
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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.
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I feel like we go through different stages of love. When you get a little bit older, love starts to feel different, but you see that love has always been there.
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For me, love is endless, and love has no age limit.
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To be recognized and accepted by my musical peers is truly an honor.