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People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.

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When I started writing, I fought against it. I thought it was way too boring and predictable. But most of the time, it just happens; there’s nothing you can do. You have to let it be what it is.
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Boring Happen Nothing Predicatable
I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little – music changes into something else when you read it.
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Music Paper People Something
When I write a song, I see a tunnel, and then the chorus is an open space, or the bassline is doing this shape. I see songs as a more of a geometric, spacial experience.
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Chorus Song Writing
I’m self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.
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Communicate Easily People Scare Self
I don’t expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
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Arrogant People Quiet Thinking
It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
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Conservatives Hands Hippie Upper
I want to support young girls who are in their 20s now and tell them: You’re not just imagining things. It’s tough. Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Everything Girl Men Once Say Support
Declare independence, don’t let them do that to you!
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Declare Independence Let
Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
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Five Guy Imagining Things
If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack
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Broken Cracks Day Wake
Most people’s eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they’ll understand the music.
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Developed Emotion Music Photograph Understanding
There’s definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There’s no map And a compass Wouldn’t help at all
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Behavior Helping Maps
Maybe I’ll be a feminist in my old age.
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Age Feminist Maybe Old
There’s something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can’t help getting in sync.
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Body Half Mind
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
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Century Forward Way Wind
A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I’m sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever.
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Best Low Possible Quality Rocking Sound Want

People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.

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People ask me questions like, “Oh, you look so theatrical in your photographs. Is that what you’re like when you walk down the street?” It’s like, “Of course not.” It’s such a silly question – it’s like being theatrical is a crime.

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