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That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it’s not about your gender; it’s about us being human, being in this together.

Bethany Cosentino

I always get pissed that I can’t make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.
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Girly Sound Voice
I found all these stupid pictures of cats at the beach, and I was like, “They get it, man. They totally get it.”
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Beach Cat Stupid
I buy most of my clothes online, I just sit around and look at websites and say ‘oh that looks cute’ – and then I just buy it and hopefully it fits because buying stuff online is always sort of risky.
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Clothes Cute Looks
Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don’t copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.
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Advice Being Giving Yourself
My favorite record of all time is Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk. It’s made up of a bunch of songs that don’t really sound the same, but they all go really well together.
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Song Sound Together
It’s scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, “Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?”
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Song Thinking Writing
That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it’s not about your gender; it’s about us being human, being in this together.
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Becoming Daughter Together
I think what we do is really, at times, a complicated thing. But at the end of the day it’s so important that we make art for people that need to escape reality for a second. That’s what music has always been for me. It’s been a way to tap out of what’s going on in my personal life.
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Art Reality Thinking
Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it’s fun when I get to be expressive in another way.
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Fun Sometimes Way
Getting to be involved with fashion is one of the coolest things I’ve done.
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Done Fashion Involved
I don’t really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger.
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Alternatives Female Liz
Touring is definitely work. You’re spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it’s not the easiest thing in the world, but it’s better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.
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Car People World
I’m working all the time. When I’m home I try to split my time evenly between resting and preparing for another tour, and writing stuff.
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Home Trying Writing
I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.
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Fun Play Thinking
I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I’m not really into modern-day beach.
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Beach Modern Party
As artists and creative people it’s such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is a time where I feel like everyone has to be together and say, “Hey, we’re all going to be okay. We just need to work together.”
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Artists Empowering People

That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it’s not about your gender; it’s about us being human, being in this together.

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That, to me, is what I feel like is the future. If I have a daughter, if you have a daughter, becoming that ideal where it’s not about your gender; it’s about us being human, being in this together.

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