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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.

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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 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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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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You can never learn enough about music.
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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.

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