Top 40 Khalid Quotes

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.

I always try to be nice. I never want to be that person that anyone perceives as being rude or disrespectful, ’cause that’s not me at all.

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.

Uzi is insanely good and super creative.

If you don’t text your relationship partner – even if you just saw them in person – it’s like you’re doing something wrong.

I knew what I wanted and where I wanted to go. I always wanted to entertain and help others.

Joel Little and I have this certain chemistry we have when we work together.

My mom and I, we have trust within each other because at one time in our lives, we were kind of all that we had, you know? My mom had me, and I had her.

I definitely associate songs with the places that I’ve been.

I was very confused with where my life was heading, but I knew that whatever I did, music was going to be involved.

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.

I’m an African-American man with an Afro who isn’t your typical athlete – who wasn’t as masculine as other guys.

I’ve got to thank the city of El Paso for standing behind me.

I try to take all of my experiences in and not take anything for granted.

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.

I would classify myself as an individual. That’s what I try to stay true with – being myself, 100 percent.

You’re not a real fan if you don’t know how to say my name.

My peers inspire me, especially being a newer artist.

And even though I’m famous, I still go through things that young people go through.

My mom raised a self-aware kid. I wasn’t like the typical alpha male. I wasn’t afraid to sing, you know? I wasn’t afraid to be in musicals.

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.

With ‘Location’ and all the other songs around it, my music turned into therapy for others. And that’s something I really love and am blown away by.

I didn’t feel like I had a home until I moved to El Paso.

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.

I’m really excited about what the future holds and to grow as an individual and as an artist.

It’s crazy that people are looking to me as a symbol like, ‘Oh, he’s the voice of the youth. He’s this and this and that.’ I feel like there’s a lot of pressure that comes with it, when people look to you as the face of something.

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.

When I started writing, I said, ‘I don’t know how to do this. I don’t know if it sounds good.’ Coming from being an underdog or being told that something wasn’t for you over and over repeatedly, it took a lot out of me. It took a lot of my self-confidence.

I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I’m in my head so much, and I’m thinking so much, I’m playing a tug-of-war within my mind.

The first songs I made brought me to the Grammys. I was a five-times nominated teenager off voice memos and songs that were clearly recorded off different mics.

A lot of people think teenagers haven’t gone through anything in their lives – they’re not even 20 years old yet. But a twenty-something can go through the same type of experience or heartbreak that a 50-year-old can go through, so why does age matter?

I feel like baggy pants are cool.

I’ve felt like an outcast most of my life, being in multiple high schools and being a military child.

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.

Kendrick Lamar deserves a Grammy. He’s one of the biggest, most influential rappers of my generation.

We forget that when you grow up, there are a lot of people who are in the same position as you. The reason we forget is because there’s not really a true voice that talks from the perspective of youth.

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.

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.

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.

Being timeless means you can listen to something when you’re feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is abnormal. It sticks out. It can’t be recreated.