“I prefer to stay in if I have a choice. I lose energy being around peo...” — Shamir Quote

“I prefer to stay in if I have a choice. I lose energy being around people. I know that sounds horrible.”

“I wrote all my songs on my main instruments, and the songs I would record in my bedroom were just acoustic guitar, mandolin, and sometimes bass. I really like the texture the mandolin added to my music, but my fingers were too big to play it... I could only do little riffs and whatever.”

“I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.”

“I've made my most horrible inhuman tendencies work for me.”

“Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn't finding my way in, I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.”

“I had the feeling every time I was on a plane everyone was going to die. It was a horrible phobia. A stupid one.”