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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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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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Things seem to take so much longer for me to do. I have to say things 10 times instead of once. I have to knock on 10 different doors instead of two. For everything.
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My personality’s very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
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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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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 don’t want to be elitist.
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I was a film major because, for some reason, I thought that that was a creative job that had more job opportunities. I don’t know what logic I was following, but that was my impression at the time.
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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 don’t want to be a musician’s musician. I want to be an everyone’s musician.
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It’s nice to know there’s a big world with many perspectives. I tend to get so stuck in my own small world easily, and going out into the world reminds me that I’m not the center of the world – in a good way.
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