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All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.

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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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When you are a minority, it’s your job to bend, and when you love someone, you really want to make it work.
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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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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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 don’t care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.
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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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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained.
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You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born,
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I remember I took a music course in junior year of high school, and some girl brought in ‘Teardrops On My Guitar,’ and she was like, ‘Isn’t this song great?’ And everyone was like, ‘Who’s Taylor Swift?’ And now, every time I listen to Taylor Swift, I remember that moment.
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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 I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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