Borns Quotes

Borns

Profession : Musician

Birth : January 7, 1992

My mom's really into astrology and she's always telling me about the moon cycles and stuff like that.

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Nothing grounds you like a real authentic Mexican taco.

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I feel like music is always alive and well.

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I like to put coconut oil in my hair if it's looking dry. It's so unruly. It has a mind of its own.

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I like a lot of older, '60s or '70s-style songwriting.

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I have a short attention span.

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In 2016, I was pretty green. I was budding. Some flowers were shooting off.

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I have a few friends who are amazing stylists, so I owe them a lot.

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There's beautiful things about tour - you're seeing the world, spreading music and I'm able to call that what I do. But it's about living lightly and abandoning things.

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I guess that's always the mystery of music. It's like why does this song make me feel so grey or why does it make me feel sad or happy or nostalgic and so I'm most fascinated by breaking that down in my music.

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Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can't look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It's human nature. Sometimes you feel like the man, and sometimes you don't. But sometimes that self-conscious energy is good for the show, it draws people in more.

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I find inspiration from a lot of different texts and really old stories and folk tales - things I feel like no one else is reading.

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I dance as best I can. I try to let the music flow freely through my legs.

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It's very easy in the studio to get overzealous with your vocal takes, thinking, 'Oh yeah, I can do it over and over. I can sing at the top of my range for this whole song.' But when you're doing it every night on the road, it's pretty intense.

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That's the worst and best thing about being in the studio, feeling completely lost and not knowing how to put the final touch on something. But once you find it, there's nothing like that feeling.

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My first CD started as a studio project and I record everything with one other guy, so I didn't have a band. That's kind of how I like to do it, though. I like to create it with one other person, this guy, Tommy English, who produces everything. And then I go out on the road with a band who interprets it live.

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To make a genuine record, it takes more than a cool beat and some auto tune.

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I like writing love songs. I really like romantic poetry.

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It's all about the art, really, at the end of the day.

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I do like how the music can be misunderstood.

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