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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.

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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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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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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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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 could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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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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Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
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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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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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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.

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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.

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