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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.

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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Being Call People Specific Start Treat Way
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’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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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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Everything Haven Ten Instead Knock Once Seem Thing Time
All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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All Feel Like Seriously Taken Time
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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Comunity Exist Ingratiate Myself Whenever Tried
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 hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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Always Chaostic Dirty Everything Felt Messy So World
Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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Belief Everyone Made Maybe Myself Preserve Purpose
I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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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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Whenever someone says they like something about my music.
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Like Music Say Someone Something

Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.

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