Alex Warren

And so like, I'm a giant teenager now kind of living out that childhood I never had.

I often do, but I think it's a childhood that I wasn't meant to have.

You know, I missed out on having a father, you know, and like I missed out on, you know, I think when you learn how to ride a bike, you look behind you once you figure it out and you fall a couple of times and you look at your parents and you say, look, I did it.

And throughout my entire career of even childhood, of becoming an adult and accomplishing certain things, I looked back and I didn't have those people in my life.

And I think that starts to rewire your brain of what an accomplishment is.

How do you value success?

To me, success is being able to show my parents I did everything I set out to be.

And so it kind of rewires you into thinking, what is it?

What does all this mean?

And what does, you know, my childhood look like?

And I think everything that I went through has shaped me up to where I am today and whether I like it or not.

And I do like it.

I like who I am now.

But it is something that, you know, I think about a lot is like, you know, I would be a completely different person if my dad was still alive, my mom was still alive, and I didn't go through half those things.

And whether or not I want that is always a question I ask.

Yeah.

I think like, you know, I could have had a childhood.

I could have had all these different things, but I would not be who I am and what I know.

And I don't think I'd be a musician.

I don't think that I would be here.