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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.

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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 remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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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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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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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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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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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