PRIORITIZE THE LYRICS

“As I was talking myself out of sending this email to this person, I saw this Ted talk and the talk was like, 'tomorrow never comes.' Everyone says they're gonna go for the bullseye and they just never do. And so I was like, let me just send this email, and Ryan responded.”

“I started off with no musical background, like at all, like never touched an instrument, never really thought I would ever in my whole life. And then in my last year of college, I was a literature major, and I was like, I'm gonna be a famous poet. And then I met this old soul singer named Malcolm Hayes who lived above Harvard and Stone.”

“Everything even still now is still lyric driven. So I just create music that sets a tone or an emotion for the emotion I'm feeling in the poetry. I rarely have come up with a musical piece first, and I am constantly driven by the lyric because I have tons of ideas.”

“When I first started, there was so much tenacity in me that I would say to any new artists: run that out first. Do everything you can. You have to use that life force in you because you learn so much about yourself and what you want and what you are.”

“I got an email and I thought it was a total joke because the subject was like 'Starbucks has requested your song.' And then I researched the person who sent it and he was a sync placement dude based in New York. It was really validating for me as coming out as a lyricist.”