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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.

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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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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You can never learn enough about music.
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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 guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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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 feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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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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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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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You can be heartbroken about a relationship but also, from it, realize you are you, and you’re okay with who you are or where you came from.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.

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