Khalid Quotes
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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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Even though I was super personal with 'American Teen,' I want to tap in and not just tell my own stories but tell the stories of other people - so that I can help as many people as possible.
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Uzi is insanely good and super creative.
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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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For me, love is endless, and love has no age limit.
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I wrote 'Saved' as a form of therapy to get over the fact that I had moved and lost so much of myself.
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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'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 would classify myself as an individual. That's what I try to stay true with - being myself, 100 percent.
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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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Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself.
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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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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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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 high school was what crafted my interest in recording.
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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 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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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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A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.
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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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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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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 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'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.