Soleil

Yeah, basically.

What did they do?

That's a really good question.

Like, just, you know, it was that type of school.

My experience there was pretty short-lived.

My mom was just constantly getting called down to the principal's office because, like—

I would do this or I had this CD or they, one time my teacher like took my journal out of my book bag and was like upset because he read some Evanescence lyrics that I wrote down.

And my mom was like, you can't do this.

So at the end of the year, my mom was like, do you want to go back to public school?

And I was like, please, God, yes.

Please put me back in public school.

I would rather deal with like,

the name calling and the taunting I got at public school than like whatever is going on here.

So she was like, okay.

So I got to go back to public school.

That was great.

I found my people.

I got to go to a public high school in Somerville, South Carolina.

While I'm in high school, I'm super into this artist named Elliot Smith.

I was also really into art at the time.