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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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When you’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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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 didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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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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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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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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