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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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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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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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 tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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 took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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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 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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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