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I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.

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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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Growing up, I never really felt like anything was my own. I moved a lot, and I never belonged anywhere.
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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’m not an innovator.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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All I want to do at karaoke is sing Mariah Carey.
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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 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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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’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 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 really just care about making music and how I can make it next.
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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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I don’t think I have the kind of creativity to write fiction.
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I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.
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