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Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.

Colbie Caillat

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Colbie Caillat
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: May 28
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Malibu
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I miss everything about you. Can't believe that I still want youAnd after all the things we've been through.
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Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.
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I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging.
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I didn't want to call and schedule shows or call and make people listen to my music. Luckily, my friends and family really stayed on me and made me put myself out there.
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I pay attention to how I look but I don't let it go too far.
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I get inspired by what I go through. Experiencing all these different things we all go through like heartache, falling in love, watching a family member or a friend going through [something], and trying to write about it from a different perspective.
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Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.
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I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.
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I try to keep myself busy. I always hang out with my family and friends and my dogs. Go to the beach. Go swimming. Go get exercise. Go on a hike.
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I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people.
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What's really cool is to be able to write music and have people around the world [who are] able to relate to it. They tell you that [your] song helped them get through a divorce or they got married to that song. It makes me want to keep doing that for [myself] and for people.
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Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.
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Be happy and comfortable with who you are, whoever it may be.
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I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.
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Taking a song and bringing it to life in a professional recording studio can be an intimidating process at first I know it certainly was for me. So to be able to offer support and guidance to an emerging singer-songwriter is a huge honor. I look forward to playing a role in such an exciting time of someone's songwriting career.
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Creating music fulfills me. It gives me purpose. It connects me with the world.
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I usually end up falling for one of my really good guy friends because I know everything about them, and you fall in love with their personalities, and it makes them become attractive to you in your eyes.
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And when I perform on my own tour, I have to talk myself into going out on that stage every single night.
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A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.
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