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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.

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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I think it’s our responsibility as artists to not only fight for our art but fight for the communities that are the reason we’re able to continue making art, especially since, in Brooklyn’s case, we as artists somehow made it ‘cool’ enough for the bigger money-making industries to start taking over.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.

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