Quotes from Bazzi

I just like pictures and visuals and stuff.

I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old.

The album is always definitely the goal, because I think that albums are like captures and bookmarks. After five or six of them, you can always go back and be like, 'Well, what was his first?'... I think an album really gives you a chance to make people feel something.

I'd like to produce something with Kanye. Like, my production plus his, I think he'd make something really cool.

I was the biggest class clown. I loved attention.

'Mine' was interesting because it was about the way that someone made me feel so loved - so beautiful, so special, so accepted. I knew that it was deeper than just writing a song about that.

I think the best thing is having a voice and being able to give people a different perspective and a different opinion and voice my emotions and how I feel. To be heard by people, it feels good.

There's moments I go through day to day because I'm human. I think the diversity in my music is going to help people relate to that.

I make songs that I genuinely enjoy and love, and just put them out kind of freely and carelessly.

That's the one thing I think I have figured out pretty decently well is I'm a performer. I've always been an entertainer; y'know, growing up, that's all I've ever done.

No one wants the picture-perfect song anymore. I'm trying to keep the beautiful qualities of pop - nostalgia, melodies, and the feeling that a beautiful pop song can give you - but make it real. It's not polished.

My iPhone background says, 'If you build it, they'll come.' You know, quality over quantity. And I really live by that.

At 10 years old, I was in my church band, playing in front of a couple thousand people every week.

I went to the studio, and I freestyled 'Beautiful' in, like, an hour and a half, and I threw it up, and people were like, 'This song's gonna change your life.'

To finally have people receive and hear what I'm saying is one of the most gratifying feelings an artist can ever have.

'Beautiful' is a freestyle, actually. I actually made 'Beautiful' being like, 'I just want something to post on Instagram, like, I don't care, I'm just gonna throw something up today.'

I set out and I said I wanted to just release music, and I don't care how many people heard it at first. And I just wanted to put records out. I knew that.

I've always had such a high level of respect for Taylor Swift because she writes all of her music.

Yeah, 'Mine' was inspired by a person, but it became much deeper than that. I obviously pulled lyrics... from stuff I was actually saying to this person and feeling about this person, but it was for people. I didn't want to make that song to impress that girl; I wanted to make that song to make people feel better.

Growing up, I wanted straight hair so bad, like Justin Bieber.

I tried out for 'The Voice,' and I also tried out for 'America's Got Talent,' and both them, like, reached out to me. I had, like, little singing video on YouTube, and they were like, 'Come out for an audition.' I did, and I got a callback for both of them, actually, and, uh, didn't get anything after that. I was so heartbroken. But look at me now!

You can listen to 'Cosmic' and truly get to know me, which I think is special.

Always trust the process. I'm a firm believer in that. You know, you keep your eyes on the destination, and of course there will always be detours, but if you're moving towards it, you will always get there.

It's truthful - every single song is an extension of me and a truthful piece of inspiration from my past or something I'm currently going through.