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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.

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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record… that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.
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I think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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 you’re young is the one time when you get to indulge in being morose and take yourself most seriously.
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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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I couldn’t wait to get out of school, but once I did, I didn’t actually know what I wanted to do with myself. I don’t really know how it happened, but I just started writing music and realized that’s what I wanted to do.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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Often I’ve had problems automatically bending to a lover’s will, becoming what I know they want me to be. Immediately, I learn all the music they love, listen to it, study it, instead of being like, ‘This is what I love!’
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Then you start to realise, ‘Oh, I’m bending a lot,’ and they’re just standing there existing, and I’m bending around them. But you can’t blame them: they don’t realise it; that’s just how they already existed. It’s hard.
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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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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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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 set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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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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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.

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