All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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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 have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions – it’s overwhelming, because things don’t fade for me.
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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 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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I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.
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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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On one hand, I think it’s very important to talk about race and talk about gender, because if it’s not talked about, then we won’t progress.
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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’re an adult, things mellow out. I think when you’re a teenager and you are sad and the world is ending, everything is about that one sadness.
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A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn’t like that for me. I didn’t think of it as a job or a career – it was just something that was constant.
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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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Everything is so chaotic and messy in the world, and I have always felt kind of dirty.
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