Drew Afualo

That is true.

And your purpose.

Absolutely.

There's nothing else I'd rather be doing than going on stage and singing.

I don't know, as a kid, it was like, I'm either gonna listen to my parents screaming at each other downstairs or I'm gonna belt louder than them, bitch.

And that's what I did.

That's how I learned to sing.

So like, you know, it's just, it's so like emotional and like, I don't know, I feel like when I got to L.A.,

you get here and then there's a million people telling you this is what you should do and this is who you should meet and you should be this way and do this and X, Y, and Z. And I just got so overwhelmed that I stopped.

I stopped doing everything.

I put out one EP that I kinda just didn't promote and I kinda wasn't proud of it.

I love it, it just wasn't me.

And I just completely shrank and I just completely put myself in a box and was just like, I can't look at myself, I can't post, I can't make music, all of this, and I just didn't know what to do.

Because it was like, do I be the girl that everyone knows me as?

Or do I be the girl that everyone knows me as but with the things I love that are hard to achieve that I'm willing to try?

And I don't know, I just like,

one day, literally in August, woke up and I was like, OK, I need to stop being so hard on myself, being like overthinking everything.

I need to like cut everyone out, not cut everyone out, but like all of the people who were like, you need to be doing it this way.

You're not good enough doing this.

Like, you can't do all that.