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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 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 think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
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When I record, it’s this very precious and insular thing.
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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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People started calling me that, and I started being treated in a specific way.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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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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I would love for Rivers Cuomo to listen to my music and see what he thinks.
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I always have strong urges to sabotage myself.
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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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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 think the pressure gets to me when I play shows and there’s more people in the audience than I’m used to.
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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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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’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 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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In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I’d never stayed in one place for so long.
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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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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 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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Tour isn’t good for writing, but it’s good for inspiration.
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I try to be regimented and try to stay healthy and work out and eat properly and go to sleep. And not get too caught up in the industry in my regular life, so I can save all my expression and energy for my art.
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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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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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Whenever I’ve tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It’s something I do automatically – I’ve learnt to immediately adapt.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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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