Charlie Puth

even if a song means so much, like I wrote a song called Cheating on You.

It wasn't an immediate success, but now it's one of my most requested songs.

Like I have to put it on the set list like two years later.

So chart positions don't define my success.

The feeling that I get from writing a song, being able to write a song and

feel changed as a person in a very short amount of time because of what musically just transpired in the room that I feel very lucky to be able to do that and therefore I feel successful.

I still have a very normal fear of failure.

We're about to put out this album that sounds completely different from anything I've ever done.

And I'm not like, I know it's not gonna fail.

I just, I worry.

sometimes that i'm not going to be understood and that to me feels like a failure at times like i want to be understood people i know people are going to listen to my music and if they're not going to like right away they'll eventually get to it but my goal with this album is to be understood and if no one understands me after that then i don't know where i went wrong do you feel like you've been understood before

No.

But I also don't feel like I – the only people that understand me are my family and my wife.

I don't really – and her family.

Anyone – I still don't feel like people in the industry understand me.

when I'm no longer asked the question anymore.

Not that I don't mind being asked the question.

Well, that just got really heady.

I guess I don't know.

I look forward to finding out and figuring that out.