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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’

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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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When someone is a musician – trying to make a living off being a public figure – it’s really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn’t have a personal life.
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