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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.

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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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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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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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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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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 hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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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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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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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