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I don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.

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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 would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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I’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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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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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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The whole ‘grunge-girl’ comparisons certainly are the easiest to pick out, and I appreciate that music journalists are rushed.
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