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 can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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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I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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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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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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I hope to be a writer and musician my whole life, fingers crossed.
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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 lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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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