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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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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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I think growing up the way I did has made me a lot more objective, and that’s important in the process of writing and trying to look at subjective matter that way.
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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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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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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 have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.
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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’m so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.
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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 created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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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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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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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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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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