00:00You've said that you used to practice your Grammy speech as a kid.
00:03Have you practiced it all this week, or are you just going to wing it when you get up there?
00:07I feel like practicing it is like an acknowledgement that I think I might win,
00:11and I feel like I'm super superstitious,
00:14and then if I say I'm going to start practicing a speech, it's going to kill any chance.
00:18But really I'm not practicing a speech because I'm just trying to live in the moment,
00:21be happy I'm there.
00:22If I get up on stage, I have so many people to thank.
00:25I've stood on the shoulders of hundreds of people that have brought me here,
00:28my mom included, most importantly.
00:30I think I'll thank my mom first and thank the folks that got me here, my fans.
00:34You've been talking about how your mom is your date tonight and building up to this moment.
00:37What does it mean to have her here with you?
00:39When I was 13 years old, my mom started telling me that I was going to go to the Grammys,
00:42and she told me I had to bring her as my date,
00:46and I didn't believe her until we pulled in the car on the way here.
00:50It's a moment where I feel like you can believe in dreams again.
00:53It's almost like if Santa Claus walked through your door when you were 25, 27 years old,
00:57and it's like, oh my God, there's magic still.
00:59That's how I feel, just surreal and just like I'm dreaming.
01:02You've been out and about at all kinds of events this week,
01:04and I loved seeing your bromance with Jelly Roll.
01:07Will we see that bromance continue tonight?
01:09Yeah, Jelly Roll is awesome.
01:11He reminds me of my buddies from back home.
01:12He's so easy to talk to, so fun, so talented.
01:15I saw him last night at Clive Davis just crushing with Lainey Wilson.
01:18He was also amazing.
01:20I would just want to go hang and have a beer with him and just talk about life.
01:23He has such a great perspective.
01:24And you posted a TikTok about UMG taking their music off the platform.
01:29What's your take on the current status of that situation,
01:31and how do you think TikTok and artists benefit from each other?
01:35Yeah, it's definitely a difficult conversation and definitely a difficult topic.
01:38I certainly haven't digested all the facts, and I don't think anyone knows everything.
01:43It's a shame for the developing artists, for sure.
01:45I'm very, very lucky to have built a career over eight years and built a fan base.
01:49I hope that it's resolved, of course, but I like to believe that there was music being made before TikTok
01:54and that there's a way around this and there's a way through it.
01:57And I'm just thinking of the younger artists and hoping that they find their feet.
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