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" Former American Idol Star stopped by the office to dish on all the big happenings in his life! He told us about his debut album, and more! 17: What should we expect from the new album? JC: I&amp;#039;ve been calling it kind of a modern singer-songwriter album. It&amp;#039;s all acoustic-based and it kind of ranges. There are intimate moments and some upbeat, rockin&amp;#039; kind of things. It&amp;#039;s the album I&amp;#039;ve always dreamed of. You know, if I got to make one record and this was it, I would be happy for the rest of my life. So I&amp;#039;m very excited. 17: Do you have a favorite song on there? JC: Mmm... it changes, but one of the consistent ones is the last song I wrote for the album. It&amp;#039;s special for a lot of reasons. It&amp;#039;s personal to me, but also, it was the last song I wrote for the album, and I almost didn&amp;#039;t write it. Even after we wrote it, we almost didn&amp;#039;t cut it, and it just kept sneaking through until the end when it turned out to really be a gem after we recorded it and everything. It&amp;#039;s called &amp;quot;It Matters to Me.&amp;quot;  17: Do you have specific relationships that have worked or haven&amp;#039;t worked that you&amp;#039;re drawing from? The kind that you definitely go back to when you&amp;#039;re writing music? JC: Yeah! Music is a cool thing, writing songs. I collaborated a lot on this album with other writers and we did a lot of co-writing. So sometimes it would come from my experience and I&amp;#039;d have an idea or sometimes someone else would be throwing out an idea and you&amp;#039;d just kind of connect that back to the past. It&amp;#039;s cool how often times people say something out of their experience, which is nothing like your experience, and they have this cool line that triggers something in you. That line automatically becomes a part of your story. It&amp;#039;s a really cool process, writing songs and where they come from. 17: Switching gears a little, what were you like when you were 17? JC: Some of it comes out nowadays. I was a really hyper little kid and I was always getting in trouble in school. Not because I was bad, but I was just mischievous and talkative, and I didn&amp;#039;t like sitting in the classroom. I was also playing drums at the time and in a band, and that was all I cared about. I liked to skateboard and drive fast cars. Are you going to buy Jason Castro&amp;#039;s new album? What dd you think of his recent single? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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