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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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.
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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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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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 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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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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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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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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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