When you mention Bieber, Lorde, One Direction, I want to be on that list. But at the same time, when you say Lil Uzi Vert, I want my name to pop up, too. I'm kinda in between both. I wanna bring them together and exist.

Kevin Abstract

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When you're bored, you get creative.

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I'm never going to search for anyone's acceptance. I'm just going to be me, and people are eventually going to have to accept it.

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I think the most important part of the teenage years is wondering.

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I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

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Find people whose morals and vision align with yours, and follow that.

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I don't really have a blueprint to follow besides watching interviews. Well, I guess the blueprint I do follow is Def Jam, in a way, just because it started in a small space, which is so similar to how we started.

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I don't know what it is that I love so much about high school, but I'm attached. The empty hallways. The teachers. They made me feel so much.

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We just want to uplift people, inspire people, and get people through their day.

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I don't want to be a queer icon. I want to be an icon.

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I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

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In order to make a change, I have to exist in a traditionally homophobic space such as hip-hop. If I were to just be this queer rapper who only spoke to queer kids... I don't think I could as effectively make a change for another young, black, queer kid growing up in Texas.

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Me just existing and being myself is making change and making things easier for other young queer kids. I want to be me and express that and break new ground along the way.

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I think it's awesome when you meet someone that can kind of just get you 110 percent, and no matter how long that lasts, you kind of just take it for what it is and embrace it.

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I just always wanted to be part of something where I felt like I belonged.

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Whatever we were saying in our music had to represent something and really stand for something. I just wanted to do something with purpose.

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It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.

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I am everything Donald Trump is against.

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Social media is awesome because I can somewhat paint myself the way I want people to see me.

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The biggest pop star in the world shouldn't be a boring white kid from Canada - the biggest pop star in the world should be a creative black kid from Texas that doesn't know how to come out to his family - that's a way more interesting story, and it gives a new type of kid some hope.

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I want kids to live through this character I've created. I want them to say that they are Kevin Abstract because they relate to it that much.

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