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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.

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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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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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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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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 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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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 think music is supposed to be shared.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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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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