Teddy Geiger Quotes

Teddy Geiger

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 16, 1988

It's very, very exciting for me to hear my songs on the radio and to play shows and have people know the words.

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The song 'Try Too Hard' I wrote when I was 10 or 11.

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I try not to write two songs about the same thing, although, on occasion, it happens, so I guess it kinda helps to change stuff up.

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I definitely have always been interested in film and working in that, and I never actually thought that I'd be able to do it.

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People have their image of you or their ideas about who you are, and it can be frustrating.

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When I was growing up, I didn't know of anybody who was trans. There was always, like, this shame, anxiety thing around all of that, even if I wasn't actively expressing it.

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It's hard to feel like a teen idol.

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Things kind of have their arc: you get signed, and your first thought is, 'Oh my God, I made it!' But you never really make it.

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You're always kind of having to 'make it' over and over again, which is cool and makes it fun. But I remember thinking, when I first did it, I was like, 'Cool. I made it. It happened.' And I did not. That's not how it works.

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It's funny. Some people now are like, 'Why would you transition? Why can't you just be comfortable how you were born?' That was my logic, but at a certain point, I realized that I was born uncomfortable.

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My mother makes marvelous meals.

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That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

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Everybody has had that experience of really wanting to do something and being afraid.

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A lot of times, I'd be styled and, like, wearing a t-shirt I wouldn't ever wear. All the sudden, there's this image of you, and you're like, 'Hold on, wait.'

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Painting my nails was one of the things I liked to do, and I was so terrified of, like, ever letting anybody see my nails painted.

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I told a couple friends about it... I was like, 'Hey, might be trans, might want to look at doing hormone therapy, just letting you know'... and they were like, 'Yeah cool. Who cares? Like, whatever, awesome.'

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Having a hit is fine, but doing the work is what I want. I get more excited the day of creation than once it's big.

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I'm not ashamed of myself.

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I started out as an artist, but I've always wanted to be a writer and producer.

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One of the things that I loved about working on that first album was working with Billy Mann, who produced the album, and all the people who worked to finish it. Just seeing how they did things and learning.

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