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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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I’ve stopped wanting a home, I think, because I’ve been on tour all my life, basically.
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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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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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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’d always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there’s a sense that you’re never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.
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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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 think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn’t last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn’t have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
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When you’re doing something you’re not used to, you kind of realize that you’re still a kid: even though the whole world around you sees you as an adult and you’re expected to act like an adult, you still haven’t actually grown up.
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When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
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I was one of those girls people called ‘intense.’
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I’m punk, but I love gold.
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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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I’ve been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.
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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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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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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As a woman of color, I always have to be at 150 percent and better than everybody in the room to be considered competent.
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I don’t want to be elitist.
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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 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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When I started making music, I was like, ‘This is something I can believe I was meant to do.’
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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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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