“Music, for me, was everything,” Podjun said. “I was not good at school. I struggled but I found a lot of refuge in music, so I put my whole heart into it. Everything I had went into music, because music is where I really felt like I could really give.”
“You almost need to have depression or bad experiences, no matter how much you dread them, if you want to move forward with [music],” Valdez said. “You have to kind of be a loner to be a musician.”