I tend to kind of try to use what’s in my environment to the best of my ability rather than seek out things that I don’t already have.
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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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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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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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If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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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 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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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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 think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.
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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 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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You can never learn enough about music.
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I guess you can say I ‘do the Twist.’ I like playful dance moves that aren’t too serious.
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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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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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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 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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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’m punk, but I love gold.
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I didn’t fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive,
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I tend to not want to do that anymore. It’s not even that I don’t like it anymore: it’s that I keep trying to find ways for people to dislike me.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I’ve watched them since I was very young, and I’ve been greatly shaped by them.
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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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