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Khalid Reveals Why Some Songs Take Him Minutes to Write and Others Take Years · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Khalid made his fans wait five years for delivering his
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Speaker 2: new album, Sincere, which is much longer than usual, but
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Speaker 2: he discussed his writing process with Billboard, which shed some
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Speaker 2: light on why the extra space was necessary for him
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Speaker 2: to create music that felt complete to him. He says,
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Speaker 2: I'm an impulsive creator. I can't plan a song ahead
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Speaker 2: of time. I might have an idea, but it's sparse.
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Speaker 2: But I find myself in the right moments writing some
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Speaker 2: songs in ten fifteen minutes, it just flows out of me.
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Speaker 2: But other songs I have to come back two years
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Speaker 2: later that I didn't finish because I had to wait
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Speaker 2: to learn and experience what I want to talk about.
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Speaker 2: The words were already there, but they were distant and small,
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Speaker 2: and sometimes you have to wait for those words to
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Speaker 2: get so loud and unbearable. You have to get it out.
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Speaker 2: Khalid there his new album, Sincere is out now.
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