Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
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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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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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I have my privileges, but I do feel like at every turn there is such resistance.
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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 was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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I really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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 don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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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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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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