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Skylar Grey Biography

Holly Brook Hafermann (born February 23, 1986), known professionally since 2010 as Skylar Grey, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer from Mazomanie, Wisconsin. In 2004, under the name Holly Brook, at the age of 17, she signed a publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group as well as a recording contract with American rock band Linkin Park's Machine Shop Recordings label imprint. In 2006, she also released her debut studio album Like Blood Like Honey, under the aforementioned labels.

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Expectations are an evil thing.

Evil, Evil Things, Expectations, Thing

I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.

Boy, Boys, Cute, Played, School

I actually quit music and I thought maybe I chose the wrong career. But, I isolated myself in a cabin in the woods for a while and that's where I fell back in love with music. Just being isolated out there, eliminating all these opinions that I endured during my time in LA and the music industry, all the rejection, it was really hard on me and my creativity. So by isolating myself in the wilderness, I was able to fall back in love with music. It was always ingrained in me, always in my blood, but I just lost it for a minute.

Chose, Creativity, Endured, Fall, Maybe, Rejection

Since I started making music, it had always been for myself.

Making, Music

I come from a place of darkness when I write because I'm always trying to figure things out. It's kind of like my own therapy when I write music. It's me working through my own problems hopefully. And putting it into a song.

Always Trying, Darkness, Song, Working, Write, Writing

I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.

Become, Embrace, Flaws, Insecurity, Needs, Things

Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis. , has been making albums since she was a tween. Grey and her mother sang as a folk duo under the name Generations; they released three indie discs. “I learned a lot about professionalism, how the show must go on even though I feel like [expletive] sometimes,” Grey remembers. “I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.

Mom, Mother, Talking, Experience, Debut, Under

One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.

Bored, Fans, Too Much, Confuse, Easily, Biggest

I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most children's teddy bear. I took it with me everywhere. I slept with it. I couldn't live without my whale.

Children, Kill, Live, Slept, Tattoo, Whales

I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.

Because I Can, Careers, Music, Realize, Realizing, Work

Alex [Da Kid] does have diversity, not just in what he produces, but what he hears. He has this knack for finding talented people.

Alex, Diversity, Kids, People

My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.

Coal, Grapefruit, Mom, Stocking

I lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon, and I'd basically given up on the music industry for an indefinite amount of time. And while I was out there, I came up with a very specific vision of what I wanted my music to sound like.

Came, Given, Oregon, Sound, Specific, Vision

Putting out a debut album is a bit scary - I want it to be just right, so I took some extra time to finish it. Eminem's increased involvement has been such a blessing; I'm getting guidance from an artist I really admire and trust.

Artist, Blessing, Debut, Extra Time, Putting, Time

I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I'm sad and dark all the time, because of the music I have made. But there's a huge part of my personality that's really energetic, outgoing and goofy.

Dark, Goofy, People, Sad, Thinking

Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough world to live in.

Honestly, Instead, Recommend, Tough, World

Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day - as long as you treat it that way.

Day, Failure, Long, Struggle, Years

Mazomanie doesn't even have a stoplight, so it doesn't do a lot. But the cheese curds there are unbelievable. I've never had them anywhere else, even at places in California that claim to have the real thing. There's a cheese factory in Arena, Mazomanie's neighboring town, and they'll give you fresh curds that are so amazing.

Amazing, Anywhere, California, Giving, Mazomanie, Real

It's very easy to fall back unto my old ways when I'm working a lot. It's important for me to continue to find solitude and peace in nature and escape the city and the industry as much as possible. That's where I reconnect and remind myself what I learned in that time in the woods when I was isolated and I recharge myself. If I don't have that, it would be really easy for me to fall apart again.

Back, Fall, Important, Possible, Solitude, Woods

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

Hindsight, Past, See, Things, Write, Writing

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