19 Things You Need To Know About Tori Kelly

Tori Kelly: We rewrote the lyrics three different times.

TK: I learned how to talk to people as myself. Watching back all those different shows that I did, it’s really easy to put up a wall and be like, I’m in artist mode now. Those shows really taught me that it comes off way better when you just walk in as yourself.

TK: I thought it was so sweet every time he would say thank you on stage because you don't have to do that, you don't have to thank your opener in front of everyone. Oh! He loves "Paper Hearts," he told me he cried during it.

TK: Ed does impressions as, like, alter egos. He has a rapper alter ego. He’s just so cool. We wrote a song together.

BuzzFeed: Can you tell us anything about the song?

TK: This doodle is a tease, kinda. All the hearts.

TK: Vine was very fairly new and I had been posting Vines sort of but it was super random. I was literally just in my car, being weird, and then other famous people on Vine were starting to do covers of it. I was so confused by it. I would get people coming up to me being like, “Who’s that girl from Vine?”

TK: Why do we even use hashtags? It's just like a sub-thought. Who clicks on hashtags? Nobody.

TK: "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" by Michael Jackson.

TK: The fans! I'm excited for people to dissect it. I want to get their take on it. People will come up to me at shows and tell me that a song touched them in a completely different way than I wrote it. That's fun. Fans translating it in their own way.

TK: It’s always a collaboration between him and the artist. It’s never like, “Here’s this song that I perfectly made for radio, it's a perfect pop song and you’re gonna sing it.” For me and him, it was very collaborative, very hands on. It felt really good for him to actually respect me as a writer and an artist.

TK: Kiss-offs are way more fun. I feel like they're more personal in a way; when you've been burned it's like a specific thing that happened. I like to write from those darker places. It's more fun for me, it's like therapy.

TK: They just won a Grammy! I'm down to support them in any way because I knew them before they won The Sing-Off or anything. I knew them before they were even an official group. It's been cool to watch them do their thing.

TK: I also like the dance girl.

TK: I woke up like this! Kidding. I use this brand called Ouidad, they’re great. Not Your Mother’s is another one. Garnier Fructis. I use a bunch of stuff. Literally, I just throw a huge concoction of stuff in my hair after I get out of the shower and then I diffuse it.

TK: It used to be falling off the stage but now I think it would be kind of funny. It would be all over YouTube. Iggy did it. I was there! I low-key kind of want it to happen so I can cross it off my list. You've gotta face your fears!

TK: I actually change them all the time but Psalm 91:4 is what my logo, my feather quill, is based on. It's one of my favorite verses. It was my phone's lock screen for a while. I switch up the verses all the time, whatever is rocking me in that moment.

TK: The video shoot was really smooth and the crew was amazing, but I think a highlight would be the chef in the video. He was really cool. I'm going to be mysterious: the chef. Cliffhanger!