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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’

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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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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I think music is supposed to be shared.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.
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With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There’s nothing that’s set.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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On tour, I don’t drink, because I don’t think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.
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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 don’t think I’m alone in this: I’m obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’

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