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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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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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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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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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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 understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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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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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