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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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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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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.
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I think your ego gets in the way of making something good because it kind of blinds you from the actual art.
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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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I’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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There’s this myth that women are supposed to compete with each other or something, or we’re supposed to hate each other, and that’s totally not productive.
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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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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 don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.
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I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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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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I actually love the summer. When I went to Miami on tour, I was actually like, ‘I love this place.’
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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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