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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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What’s important to me is that my songs can exist without any material anything. It’s very reflective of my ideology.
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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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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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If I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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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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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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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I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.
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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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