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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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When you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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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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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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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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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’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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I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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